Expression of four growth factors during fracture repair

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Fracture repair offers an opportunity to study the physiology of bone formation at the fracture site. Isolation of growth factors from bone matrix has implicated growth factors as participants in bone physiology. We therefore examined the expression patterns of aFGF, IGF-I, PDGF, and TGF-beta during fracture repair. An animal model has been developed to study repair of tibial fractures. The model provides both...

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