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Heparin Potentiates the in Vivo Ectopic Bone Formation Induced by Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2
6 Jun 2006
Abstract excerpt
Although bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are clinically useful for bone regeneration, large amounts are required to induce new bone formation in monkeys and humans. We found recently that heparin stimulates BMP activity in vitro (Takada, T., Katagiri, T., Ifuku, M., Morimura, N., Kobayashi, M., Hasegawa, K., Ogamo, A., and Kamijo, R. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 43229-43235). In the present study, we examined...
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