A biodegradable system for the tailored delivery of growth factors and its application to bone morphogenetic protein-2 delivery for bone repair

The repair of bone defects and fracture non-unions remain a challenge for clinicians. Current materials have limitations regarding quality, availability and there are long-term complications. Alternative graft materials, often in combination with growth factors have been investigated, but, poor rete...

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Main Author: Cox, Helen Celia
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13881/