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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 109, Issue 2, Pages 302-311Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22418
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FRACTURE HEALING; HIF; Wnt; BMP
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Fracture repair is a complex process involving timed cellular recruitment, gene expression, and synthesis of compounds that regenerate native tissue to restore the mechanical integrity, and thus function or injured bone. While the majority of fractures heal without complication, this takes time and a subset of patients (similar to 10%) experience healing delays, extending their morbidity and treatment costs. Consequently, there is a need For efficacious therapeutics For the intervention of fracture healing. Recent studies into the molecular control of fracture repair and advances in the understanding of the skeleton as a whole have resulted in the identification of, numerous novel targets and compounds for such intervention. These include traditional agents Such bone morphogenetic proteins and other growth factors, but also relatively newer Such as parathyroid hormone and modulators of the Wnt signaling pathway. These agents, along with others. are discussed in the Current article ill terms of their investigative status and potential For clinical implementation. Hopefully, these agents, as well as others yet to he discovered, will demonstrate sufficient clinical utility For successful intervention of fracture healing. This may have significant implications For the duration of morbidity and costs associated with traumatic bone Fractures. J. Cell. Biochem. 109: 302-311, 2010. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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