Bone healing requires removal of fibrin (fibrinolysis) so that blood vessels can grow, reach out and reconnect.
Image credit: J. Schoenecker/Vanderbilt UMC
This was the surprising conclusion of a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, that may cause textbooks on bone fracture healing to be rewritten.
The team expects the findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, will prompt a rethink on how fractures heal and change the way doctors go about promoting fracture repair.
