Inductive Materials for Regenerative Engineering.
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SUBMITTER: Hosseini FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8504858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
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Inductive Materials for Regenerative Engineering.
Hosseini F S FS Nair L S LS Laurencin C T CT
Journal of dental research 20210427 10
Regenerative engineering has pioneered several novel biomaterials to treat critical-sized bone injuries. However, despite significant improvement in synthetic materials research, some limitations still exist. The constraints correlated with the current grafting methods signify a treatment paradigm shift to osteoinductive regenerative engineering approaches. Because of their intrinsic potential, inductive biomaterials may represent alternative approaches to treating critical bone injuries. Osteoi ...[more]
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