• 1. Department of Orthopedics for Limb Trauma, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, Guangxi 541000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Orthopedics, Nanxishan Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin, Guangxi 541000, P. R. China;
BEI Chaoyong, Email: beichy2008@126.com
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Clinically, fracture nonunion often leads to pain and disability in patients. Fracture nonunion often requires additional surgery to restore skeletal muscle function, so the treatment of fracture nonunion has always been a difficult point in the field of orthopedics. In recent years, with the development of genetic engineering, the technology of using gene to treat fracture nonunion has been widely studied. A large number of experiments have confirmed that the target genes encoding growth factors related to fracture healing are introduced into target cells through different delivery methods in vivo or in vitro, thereby expressing specific growth factors can promote fracture healing, which provides a new way for treating fracture nonunion. This article will discuss the research status of different delivery methods of osteogenic genes, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, in order to provide a theoretical basis for targeted gene therapy for fracture nonunion.

Citation: WANG Ning, CHEN Junyi, ZHU Lunjing, DUAN Jiangtao, PENG Chenfei, BEI Chaoyong. Advances in research on targeted gene therapy for nonunion of fracture. West China Medical Journal, 2020, 35(1): 89-92. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201910049 Copy

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