Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 11th, 2005
"Bone cement is a widely used standard fixation substance in orthopedic surgery," scientists in Germany explained. "Cyanoacrylate glue is available for wound closure to supplement suturing," while the "mussel adhesive protein extracted from Mytilus edulis (Cell-Tak, BD Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany) is an experimental fixation device used for in vitro purposes of cell adhesion."
In a recent study, J.P. Benthien and coauthors devised a cell culture model and used it to determine "the effects of commonly applied and...
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