Enhancement of the effects of intermittent parathyroid hormone (1-34) by bone morphogenetic protein in a rat femoral open fracture model

Table 1 Assessment of bony fusion with manual palpation

Treatment group		No. assessed manually for fusion	Fused	Fusion rate (%)
Group I	Carrier alone	11	2	18.2
Group II	1 μg rhBMP-2	12	4	33.3
Group III	Carrier + PTH	12	8	66.7*
Group IV	1 μg rhBMP-2 + PTH	11	7	63.6*
Group V	10 μg rhBMP-2	11	9	81.8*
Group VI	10 μg rhBMP-2 + PTH	11	9	81.8*

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