by Ellen Goldbaum, University at Buffalo Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Children taking psychostimulant drugs prescribed for psychiatric disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who experience a common childhood fracture take longer to heal than children who don’t take these drugs, University at Buffalo researchers report. The findings were published in the Journal of Pediatric...
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Research team achieves near-perfect bone healing with new multi-leveled scaffold
by Technical University of Denmark (a) Schematic representation of the (a) bone structure and its composition ranging from nanometers to micrometers and (b) development of biomimetic scaffolds containing the various steps for preparing a combinatorial hydrogel/scaffold. Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01717 A team at DTU Health Tech, led by Associate Professor Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz, has...
Role of lymphatic system in bone healing revealed
by University of Oxford Graphical Abstract. Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.031 It was previously assumed that bones lacked lymphatic vessels, but new research from the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Oxford’s MRC Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine not only locates them within bone tissue, but demonstrates their role in bone and blood cell regeneration and reveals changes...
Speeding up bone healing in menopausal females
by Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Credit: Shutterstock Older women heal bone fractures slower than men. Now a team has found that a single, localized delivery of estrogen to a fracture can speed up healing in postmenopausal mice. The findings could have implications for the way fractures in women are treated in the future. Over...
Suppressed immune response linked to failed bone healing
If all goes as envisioned, research done at the UO could one day lead to a blood test to guide treatment for trauma victims whose bones may be slow to heal. A team led by Robert Guldberg of the UO’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact reported that measurements of specific immune cells and...
The effectiveness of electrical stimulation in producing spinal fusion
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY PUBLISHING GROUP CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (OCTOBER 8, 2019). Researchers from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data on the effect of electrical stimulation therapies on spinal fusion. They found significant improvement overall in the rates of bone fusion following a course of electrical stimulation...