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Table 1 Search terminology to be used in the meta-analysis

From: Bioactive scaffolds in stem-cell-based therapies for cardiac repair: protocol for a meta-analysis of randomized controlled preclinical trials in animal myocardial infarction models

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Term

1

Tissue Scaffolds/

2

exp Cell Engineering/

3

(scaffold* or hydrogel* or patch* or bead* or biomaterial*).tw,kf.

4

(tissu* adj3 engineer*).tw,kf.

5

1 or 2 or 3 or 4

6

exp Stem Cells/

7

Myocytes, Cardiac/

8

Myocardium/cy [Cytology]

9

limit 8 to yr. = “1968–2002”

10

Cell Differentiation/

11

limit 10 to yr. = “1966–1983”

12

Cell Line/

13

limit 12 to yr. = “1969–1983”

14

Cells, Cultured/

15

limit 14 to yr. = “1972–1983”

16

Colony-Forming Units Assay/

17

limit 16 to yr. = “1979–1983”

18

((progenitor* or cardi* or heart* or stem* or mother) adj5 (cell* or myocyt*)).tw,kf.

19

(cardiomyocyt* or cardio myocyt* or cardiac myocyt*).tw,kf.

20

or/6–19

21

5 and 20

22

exp Myocardial Infarction/

23

(MI or AMI or STEMI or NSTEMI or ((myocard* or myo-card* or heart* or cardiac* or subendocard* or coronary) adj3 (infarct* or reinfarct* or attack*))).tw,kf.

24

(MACE or ((major or acute) adj1 ((cardiac* or cardio* or coronary) adj1 event*))).tw,kf.

25

22 or 23 or 24

26

21 and 25

27

Regeneration/

28

(repair* or regen* or heal* or preserv*).tw,kf.

29

27 or 28

30

26 and 29

31

Animals/ not (Animals/ and Humans/)

32

((animals or animal or canine* or cat or cats or dog or dogs or feline or goat* or hamster* or mice or monkey or monkeys or mouse or murine or pig or pigs or piglet* or porcine or primate* or rabbit* or rats or rat or rodent* or sheep*) not (human* or patient*)).ti.

33

31 or 32

34

30 and 33

35

remove duplicates from 34