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Vascular endothelial growth factor plays an important part in longitudinal bone growth by stimulating angiogenesis into the epiphyseal growth plate (pages 623–628).
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Figure 1: The long bones grow as the expanding cartilage of the growth plate (GP) is replaced by advancing bone through endochondral ossification.
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Harper, J., Klagsbrun, M. Cartilage to bone—Angiogenesis leads the way.Nat Med 5, 617–618 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/9460
- Issue Date: June 1999
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/9460