Biomedical Engineering
Research from Japan, the United States and Israel add new data to biomedical engineering body of knowledge
Published in Blood Weekly, June 15th, 2006
Study 1: Exogenous type I collagen facilitates osteogenic differentiation.
"We cultured rat mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a medium containing P-glycerophosphate, ascorbic acid, and dexamethasone to show in vitro osteogenic differentiation of the MSCs.
"The differentiation was enhanced by adding solubilized type I collagen to the medium as evidenced by higher alkaline phosphatase activity as well as more calcium deposition than that without collagen," investigators in Japan report.
According to T. Kihara and...
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