To enhance the regeneration of bone, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2, or BMP-2. However, it is expensive and only moderately effective.
Recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2, Medtronic Inc), used to promote bone growth in spinal fusion surgery, offers little or no benefit over bone graft and may be associated with more ...
Proteins are bio-macromolecules with a range of functionalities as a result of complex higher-order structures. As the end product of the “central dogma” in biology, proteins are considered the key ...