Population
Adult mice, MC3T3-E1 cell line, and primary osteoblast cells
Design
Preclinical
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Should not yet inform clinical bone therapies; leaves open periostin's role in human osteoblast recruitment.
Periostin is a novel TGF-beta-induced protein that may play a role in the recruitment and attachment of osteoblast precursors in the periosteum.
Horiuchi et al. (1999) studied this question.
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