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SUBMITTER: Dhillon RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3540116 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dhillon Robinder S RS Xie Chao C Tyler Wakenda W Calvi Laura M LM Awad Hani A HA Zuscik Michael J MJ O'Keefe Regis J RJ Schwarz Edward M EM
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 20130301 3
Recombinant parathyroid hormone (rPTH) therapy has been evaluated for skeletal repair in animal studies and clinical trials based on its known anabolic effects, but its effects on angiogenesis and fibrosis remain poorly understood. We examined the effects of rPTH therapy on blood vessel formation and osseous integration in a murine femoral allograft model, which caused a significant increase in small vessel numbers, and decreased large vessel formation (p < 0.05). Histology showed that rPTH also ...[more]