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The role of osteochondral progenitor cells in fracture repair.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research - 1 Oct 1998
Yoo J U, Johnstone B
Abstract excerpt
The repair of a fracture necessarily entails synthesis of osseous tissue requiring the transformation of undifferentiated osteochondral progenitor cells to mature osteoblasts and chondrocytes. Owen and Friedenstein proposed that there are stem cells for all mesenchymal tissues, resident in bone marrow throughout life, that have a lineage comparable to that described for hematopoiesis. Subsequent with this initial...
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