Biocompatibility of alendronate-loaded acrylic cement for vertebroplasty

This paper reports a biological evaluation of a non-resorbable acrylic cement loaded with alendronate for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. The cement formulation was based on polymethyl methacrylate and acrylic monomers; one of these had covalently linked vitamin E resi...

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Main Authors: T Calvo-Fernández, J Parra, M Fernández-Gutiérrez, B Vázquez-Lasa, A López-Bravo, F Collía, MA Pérez de la Cruz, J San Román
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC 2010-10-01
Series:European Cells & Materials
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Online Access:http://www.ecmjournal.org/journal/papers/vol020/pdf/v020a21.pdf