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IT is known that human xenografts1 thrive in both unconditioned2 and conditioned3 mammalian hosts. Reports have been published on the fate of human tooth germ xenografts4,5 and on human fœtal bone tissue xenografts2,6, but although homografts have been used in work on osteogenesis and growth potentiality of bones7,8, no data seem to be available on growth of whole human fœtal bone xenografts. The present work was undertaken to explore the possibilities in this respect.
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KOSKI, K., LAAKSONEN, AL. & LUOSTARINEN, E. Fate of Fœtal Human Bone Xenografts in Rats. Nature 193, 1092–1093 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931092a0
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