Successful repair of a critical-sized bone defect in the rat femur with a newly developed external fixator

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-120

  Zhao, Zhenyu ^a   Yang, Daping ^a   Ma, Xu ^a   Zhao, Hongmei ^a   Nie, Chunlei ^a   Si, Zhenxing ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone tissue engineering; Critical size defect; External fixator; Femur; Small animal model

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANT; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMUR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70449628212     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.219.115     Document Type: Article

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