TARGETS AND AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF IMPAIRED BONE FRACTURE HEALING

摘要

The application teaches a composition comprising one or more pharmaceutical active ingredients selected from the group consisting of interleukin-8 (IL-8 or CXCL8), a functional fragment of IL-8, a functional variant of IL-8, and an agonist of IL-8 receptor, for therapeutic and/orprophylactic interventions in impaired bone fracture healing, such as but not limited to non-union fractures, mal-union fractures, or delayed union fractures.