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Article: TB4 stimulates critical wound healing protein, study shows.
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- Biotech Business Week
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., (RGRX) reported that data published in the journal, Experimental Cell Research confirms that Thymosin Beta 4 (TB4) stimulates epithelial cell migration and promotes laminin-5 (LM-5) expression, each an important component of the wound healing process.
"The importance of this study is that it provides the first scientific evidence that TB4 directly increases LM-5 production in human epithelial cells independent of growth factors such as TGF-B," said Dr. Allan L. Goldstein, chairman of biochemistry and molecular biology at the George Washington University Medical Center and chairman and ...