Exocrine glands such as salivary glands, lacrimal glands and mammary glands secrete a variety of peptide
growth factors which are crucial for their development, cellular proliferation, differentiation and healing (Kouidhi et al., 2012).
One method for repair or regeneration of damaged cartilage tissue is to deliver therapeutic
growth factors.
One method for repair or regeneration of damaged cartilage tissue is to deliver therapeutic
growth factors.
Growth factors are a special class of proteins that can aid in tissue repair and regeneration.
Platelets store
growth factors including platelet-derived
growth factor, transforming growth factor-ss, platelet-derived epidermal
growth factor, vascular endothelial
growth factor, insulin-like growth factor-1, fibroblastic
growth factor, and epidermal
growth factor, cytokines and many other proteins.3 Therefore, increasing platelet concentration in a damaged tissue would result in increased levels of these
growth factors and, subsequent, improvement in healing process.4 Its applicability includes plastic surgery,1 orthopedic surgery,3 cardiac surgery, ophthalmology, and sports medicine.5 There are differences in the concentration of platelets prepared by the various automated and manual techniques described in the literature6 and this can affect the different biological effects.
Their influence also continues throughout our lives; if tissues are damaged such as a broken bone or wound on our skin,
growth factors coordinate how our tissue heal.
Hair Stimulating Complex (HSC660) is a soluble formulation of a subset of naturally-secreted
growth factors developed as an injectable treatment for hair growth.
The researchers wanted to see how well the tocotrienols enhanced
growth factors. These are substances required for growing tissue.
More studies were based on investigating implants as carriers of
growth factors. Therefore, all such studies were grouped together and rest of the studies were grouped in another table.
Coventry came third after Bradford and Leicester according to the Barclays SME
Growth Factors Index.
It has been shown that administration of T3 which is the metabolically active form of thyroid hormone can affect
growth factors produced by the salivary glands, however it needs to be investigated if the exogenous administration of T3 can also cause any morphological or cytological changes in the sublingual tissue.
bFGF is among a family of
growth factors whose members are involved in everything from the formation of new blood vessels and wound healing to embryonic development and various endocrine signaling pathways.
Skin has inherent repair processes regulated by dynamic and complex cell-signaling molecules called
growth factors.
