{"id":158509,"date":"2023-02-19T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mucus-based-gel-improves-bone-graft-results-and-promotes-healing"},"modified":"2023-02-19T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:23:16","slug":"mucus-based-gel-improves-bone-graft-results-and-promotes-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mucus-based-gel-improves-bone-graft-results-and-promotes-healing","title":{"rendered":"Mucus-based gel improves bone graft results and promotes healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mucus-based-gel-improves-bone-graft-results-and-promotes-healing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molecules from mucus can be used to produce synthetic bone graft material and help with the healing of larger bone loss, a new study found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology report the development of a bioactive gel which they say could replace the clinical gold standard of autografting, in which lost <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a> is replaced with healthy bone taken from another part of the patient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>Hongji Yan, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, says the gel contains mucins, molecules which were derived from cow <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mucus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mucus<\/a>. The mucins are processed into gels which are combined with monetite granules, a commonly-used synthetic bone graft material. The synthetic gel can be injected to the site of the bone loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecules from mucus can be used to produce synthetic bone graft material and help with the healing of larger bone loss, a new study found. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology report the development of a bioactive gel which they say could replace the clinical gold standard of autografting, in which lost bone is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}