Potential therapeutic use of relaxin in accelerating closure of cranial bone defects in mice

Abstract Bone fractures are associated with considerable morbidity and increased mortality. A major limitation to healing is lack of bone blood flow, which is impaired by physical disruption of intraskeletal and/or periosteal vasculature by the fracture. Thus, pharmacological interventions are neede...

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Main Authors: Kirk P. Conrad, Ean G. Phillips, Jessica Jiron, Julie Bailes, Biswadeep Dhar, YanPeng Diao, Jose Ignacio Aguirre, Joshua F. Yarrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:Physiological Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.14106