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What are bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and how can they be used in orthopaedic practice? Ever since Urist proposed in 1976 that protein factors from cortical bone appeared to modulate bone healing in animals, there has been a search for these mysterious osteoinductive components. Now that their structure has been elucidated, they have been purified and cloned, and are now available for the improvement of bone healing. The best source of BMPs is demineralised bone. This bone allograft is used to achieve greater osteoinductive capacity. But are the actions of procurement, processing, demi

Bone morphogenetic proteins. --- Collagen. --- Collogen --- Extracellular matrix proteins --- Connective tissues --- BMPs (Bone morphogenetic proteins) --- Morphogenetic proteins, Bone --- Growth factors --- Proteins

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Selected papers from the BMP Technology Symposium: Current and Future Directions, presented at the 2004 World Water and Environmental Congress held in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 28–July 1, 2004. This report presents examples of BMP (Best Management Practice) options for use in the management of urban watersheds. With both case studies and technical information, it details the state of the science and offers BMP designs as well as guidelines for monitoring, selection, implementation, and cost. This work will be beneficial to landscape architects, city planners, watershed managers, and environmental and civil engineers.

Storm sewers. --- Urban runoff --- Watershed management --- Best Management Practices (BMPs) --- Urban areas --- Municipal water --- Watersheds --- Salt water --- Urban and regional development --- Case studies --- Lakes --- Utah --- United States --- Management.

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This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * worker and community health risk exposures * cost data for pollution management * cleaner production and prevention alternatives Best Practices in The Petroleum Industry provides an overview of refineries and gas plant operations and identifies the

Best management practices (Pollution prevention) --- Green technology. --- Industrial ecology. --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Environmental aspects. --- Materials management --- Earth-friendly technology --- Environmental technology --- Technology --- BMPs (Pollution prevention) --- Pollution prevention --- Nonpoint source pollution

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Sponsored by the Stormwater Best Management Practices Maintenance Task Committee of the Water Supply, Wastewater, and Stormwater Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE Inspection and Maintenance of Stormwater Control Measures describes the functions and operations of stormwater control measures, offers trouble-shooting suggestions, and provides valuable information on the implementation of inspection and maintenance procedures. Topics include Maintenance Guidelines and Protocols Tiered Inspection and Maintenance Vegetated Conveyance Practices Filtration and Infiltration Practices Surface Storage Practices Literature Review Findings, andNational BMP Survey results and recommendations. The field of stormwater management has experienced exponential innovation over the last decade. Unlike the treatment technologies implemented to address point source pollution, non-point source pollution controls have no universally agreed upon maintenance protocols. Despite lack of universal maintenance protocols many states and municipalities have made regular inspection and maintenance of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) an ongoing legal requirement. The various maintenance tasks required for BMPs may serve to not only meet legal requirements, but also to ensure proper BMP function and to prevent flooding and negative impacts to adjacent infrastructure. Engineers, landscape architects, land planners, stormwater professionals, asset managers, maintenance personnel, and government officials will find this guidance document a valuable resource in inspection and maintenance planning, as well as in the field.

Urban runoff --- Flood control --- Storm sewers --- Maintenance and operation --- Stormwater management --- Inspection --- Best Management Practices (BMPs) --- Water resources --- Water storage --- Water supply --- Water management --- Management. --- Maintenance and repair. --- Inspection.

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Tissue engineering is gaining interest as it is applied for regeneration of organs to attain their lost function. Although resorbable scaffolds and progenitor cell types are required principles to engineer a functional tissue locally, the inductive signal is a prerequisite to trigger the growth and differentiation of responding cells in space and time. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), also called growth and differentiation factors (GDFs), originally identified from bone have been successfully used to regenerate the bone in humans. Most recent preclinical data suggests that BMPs have a potential to provide protection against inflammation and fibrosis in acute and chronic injury of parenchymal tissues when applied systemically to sustain the function of kidney and liver. The application of BMPs from a local to systemic utility is a rapidly growing field, gaining interest among researchers and biotech entrepreneurs. In this volume, we summarize the advances made on the local and systemic use of BMPs including chapters covering the regulation of BMP-signalling pathways, biological actions of BMPs in bone, cartilage and teeth, as well as clinical applications and potential systemic use of BMPs for tissues beyond bone. This volume is of interest to researchers from immunology, cell biology, biochemistry, and clinicians from orthopedics and dentistry, as well as to research managers from biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Bone morphogenetic proteins. --- Bone morphogenetic proteins --- Therapeutic use. --- BMPs (Bone morphogenetic proteins) --- Morphogenetic proteins, Bone --- Growth factors --- Proteins --- Biotechnology. --- Immunology. --- Rheumatology. --- Orthopedics. --- Cytology. --- Cell Biology. --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Internal medicine --- Connective tissues --- Joints --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Diseases --- Cell biology.