The care of patients with a skeletal deficiency currently involves the use of bone graft or a non-biologic material such as a metal or polymer. There are alternate possibilities in development which involve the growth of bone cells (osteoblasts) on degradable polymer scaffolds. These tissue engineer
The proliferation and phenotypic expression of human osteoblasts on tantalum metal
β Scribed by David M Findlay; Katie Welldon; Gerald J Atkins; Donald W Howie; Andrew C.W Zannettino; Dennis Bobyn
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 532 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0142-9612
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