In recent years, considerable advances have been made in the field of regenerative medicine. Unlikeembryonic stem cells, which pose the problems of ethical concerns and cause severe immunological reactions as well as neoplasma formation after transplantation, umbilical cord blood is a primitive source ofmesenchymal stem cells that covers the benefits of both embryonic and adult stem cells. It h...

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) were originally identified as the active components in bone extracts that can induce ectopic formation. In recent decades, their key role has broadly expanded beyond physiology and pathology. Nowadays, BMP pathway is considered an important player vascular signaling. Indeed, mutations genes encoding different of cause various severe diseases. Their signaling c...

both anorganic bovine bone (abb) and β-tricalcium phosphate (β-tcp) are used in clinical practice as bone substitute materials, but there is limited data comparing these two materials in standardized defects. the aim of this study was to histologically evaluate the effectiveness of abb and β-tcp in the healing of experimentally induced bone defects.eighteen bone defects were created on the calv...

The bone disease in multiple myeloma is caused by an uncoupling of bone formation from bone resorption. A key difference between patients with and patients without osteolytic lesion is that the latter have fewer and less active osteoblasts. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is often produced by myeloma cells and is found at high concentrations in the bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma. ...

The present study was undertaken to evaluate porous hydroxyapatite (HAp), the powder of which was prepared by a novel aqueous solution combustion technique, as a bone substitute in healing bone defects in vivo, as assessed by radiologic and histopathologic methods, oxytetracycline labeling, and angiogenic features in Bengal goat. Bone defects were created in the diaphysis of the radius and eith...

We previously described the discovery of a fetuin-matrix Gla protein (MGP)-mineral complex in the serum of rats treated with the bone-active bisphosphonate etidronate and showed that the appearance of this complex in serum correlates with the inhibition of bone mineralization by etidronate. In this study we show that the inhibition of bone resorption by treatment with the hormone calcitonin, th...

As Gu-Sui-Bu (GSB) is a commonly used Chinese medical herb for therapeutic treatment of bone-related diseases, naringin is its main active component. This study elucidates how various concentrations of naringin solution affect the activities of bone cells, based on colorimetric, alkaline phosphatase activity, nodule formation, and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase activity assays to determine...

A new species of Dunkleosteus, D. tuderensis sp. nov., is named based on an infragnathal from the Famennian Tver Region, Russia. CT scanning holotype revealed two high-density bony constituents comparable in position and interrelations to components described for coccosteomorph arthrodires, supported by presence at least clusters large vascular canals marking separate arterial supplies. Coccost...

In this study granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (CSF) was prepared from rabbit and guinea pig lung tissues. The biological activity of these CSFs was measured on semisolid agar culture and compared with those of mouse and rat. Weight of animals, incubation time and cross-reactivity of CSFs with different bone marrow sources were also investigated. The results showed that both...