Claims
- 1. A bone grafting material comprising a polymer scaffold loaded with bone morphogenetic proteins and populated with muscle cells induced by the bone morphogenetic proteins to exhibit an osteoblastic phenotype and to synthesize bone tissue.
- 2. A method for using the bone grafting material of claim 1 in a bone grafting procedure comprising maintaining the material ex vivo until sufficient bone tissue has been formed and implanting the material into a patient in need thereof.
INTRODUCTION
[0001] This invention was sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation (Grant Number BES9553162/BES981782). The U.S. government may therefore have certain rights in the invention.
PCT Information
Filing Document |
Filing Date |
Country |
Kind |
PCT/US02/05357 |
2/21/2002 |
WO |
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