Immune system can delay healing of bone fractures

Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

Medical researchers have succeeded in demonstrating an association between delayed bone fracture healing and increased concentration of specific immune cells in the blood of the patient. Results of the study show that the adaptive immune system responds to the fracture in a similar way as to an infection and attempts to fight against it.

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