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ACCELERATED WOUND HEALING WITH FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR
Title: Principal Investigator
Phone: (415) 966-1550
BASIC AND ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS (FGF) ARE TWO PRIMARY MITOGENS FOR CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELLS. BOVINE BASIC FGF, ISOLATED FROM PITUITARIES, WILL BE USED IN RAT WOUND HEALING MODELS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THIS FACTOR CAN ACCELERATE THE RATE OF WOUND HEALING THROUGH PROMOTING ANGIOGENESIS. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEVELOPING A THERAPY THAT WILL BE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF BURN AND OTHERTRAUMA VICTIMS WHO HAVE POORLY HEALING WOUNDS. TO OBTAIN A SOURCE OF THE HUMAN FGFS, FOR FURTHER ANIMAL TESTS AND FOR EVENTUAL CLINICAL TRIALS, THE DNA SEQUENCES ENCODING BOTH BASIC AND ACIDIC FGF WILL BE CLONED. THIS WILL ALLOW THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMBINANT DNA EXPRESSION SYSTEMS FORHUMAN PROTEINS.
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