Fracture healing under healthy and inflammatory conditions

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 133-143

  Claes, Lutz ^a   Recknagel, Stefan ^a   Ignatius, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 5; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYTOKINE; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE CELL; BONE PLATE; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRUCTURE; CALLUS; CELL ACTIVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; SPLINTING; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; SHEEP;

EID: 84857920401     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.1     Document Type: Review

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