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Retroviral‐based gene therapy with cyclooxygenase‐2 promotes the union of bony callus tissues and accelerates fracture healing in the rat
19 Dec 2007
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BACKGROUND: An in vivo gene therapy strategy was developed to accelerate bone fracture repair. METHODS: Direct injection of a murine leukemia virus-based vector targeted transgene expression to the proliferating periosteal cells arising shortly after fracture. Cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) was selected because the transgene for its prostaglandin products that promote angiogenesis, bone formation and bone resorption,...
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