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Molecular aspects of bone healing and remodeling

Grzegorz Szczesny1

  • 1Department of Surgical Research and Transplantology, Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa. szczesny@cmdik.pan.pl

Polish Journal of Pathology : Official Journal of the Polish Society of Pathologists
|December 13, 2002
PubMed

Keywords:
bone healing mechanismsgrowth factor signalingcytokine regulationfracture repair biology

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