The potential role of free chitosan in bone trauma and bone cancer management
Bone defects caused by fractures or cancer-mediated destruction are debilitating. Chitosan is commonly used in scaffold matrices for bone healing, but rarely as a free drug. We demonstrate that free chitosan promotes osteoblast proliferation and osteogenesis in mesenchymal stem cells, increases oste...
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Format: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier Ltd
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41787 |