Published in Hematology Week, October 9th, 2006
According to recent research published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, "Patients undergoing enucleation and adjuvant interferon therapy for giant cell jaw tumors have been observed to exhibit exuberant bone formation in the resultant defects.
"We hypothesize that interferon promotes bone formation by enhancing mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) differentiation and by stimulating osteoblasts. This is a preliminary study to determine the effects of interferon on porcine mesenchymal stem cells (pMSCs) in culture."
"Isolated pMSCs were grown...
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Source: Hematology Week (2006-10-09)
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