Thrombopoietic agents enhance bone healing in mice, rats, and pigs

Paul J Childress, Jeffery J Nielsen, Thomas B Bemenderfer, Ushashi C Dadwal, Nabarun Chakraborty, Jonathan S Harris, Monique Bethel, Marta B Alvarez, Aamir Tucker, Alexander R Wessel, Patrick D Millikan, Jonathan H Wilhite, Andrew Engle, Alexander Brinker, Jeffrey D Rytlewski, David C Scofield, Kait · 2025

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Childress and a large team show that platelet growth drugs speed bone healing in mice, rats, and pigs in twenty twenty-four. Broken bones that refuse to knit remain a clinical headache. The usual growth proteins carry side effect worries, including cancer links. Thrombopoietin, the marrow signal for platelet making cells, was their candidate.

Two fracture models and both local and body wide dosing worked. Gene and cell studies credit richer blood vessel growth for the gain. Vessel growth is a must for bone union. The drugs already serve clinic use for low platelets, with known safety. That head start lifts their promise here.

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CREATORPaul J Childress, Jeffery J Nielsen, Thomas B Bemenderfer, Ushashi C Dadwal, Nabarun Chakraborty, Jonathan S Harris, Monique Bethel, Marta B Alvarez, Aamir Tucker, Alexander R Wessel, Patrick D Millikan, Jonathan H Wilhite, Andrew Engle, Alexander Brinker, Jeffrey D Rytlewski, David C Scofield, Kait
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE51 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11700610

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