17 June 2024
Regenerating Cartilage
This study shows zebrafish can regenerate cartilage throughout their life, and the role played in that by the vitmain A metabolite retinoic acid – implications for using retinoic acid agonists as treatment in humans for diseases such as osteochondromas.
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Claire Arata and colleagues
- Eli and Edythe Broad California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Center for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research, Department of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, LA, CA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Published in bioRxiv, May 2024 (not peer reviewed)
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