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New Bone Research Study Results from University of Twente Described

Published in Blood Weekly, April 26th, 2012

2012 APR 26 -- Investigators discuss in "Sonic Hedgehog-activated engineered blood vessels enhance bone tissue formation" new findings in Bone Research. "Large bone defects naturally regenerate via a highly vascularized tissue which progressively remodels into cartilage and bone. Current approaches in bone tissue engineering are restricted by delayed vascularization and fail to recapitulate this stepwise differentiation toward bone tissue," scientists in Enschede, Netherlands report.

"Here, we use the morphogen Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) to induce the in vitro organization of an endothelial capillary network in an artificial tissue. We show that endogenous...

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