A 3D printed mimetic composite for the treatment of growth plate injuries in a rabbit model.

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"Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number R33HD090696 and the Gates Grubstake Fund. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Microindentation and X-ray microscopy was performed at MIMIC, CU Boulder (RRID:SCR_019307). The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Christopher Erickson, Dr. Joseph Fuchs, and Stacey Thomas for technical assistance with surgical procedures and preparation of samples for microCT or histology. The authors would like to thank Dr. Corey Neu and Ellyse Schneider for allowing SAS use of access to the Nikon Eclipse Ti, Nikon A1R for acquisition of fluorescence microscopy images. The authors acknowledge support from a graduate NIH Training Grant in Molecular Biophysics under Award Number T32 GM065103 and the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) from the Department of Education to S.A.S. The authors also acknowledge support from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award and a GAANN award to A.C.U. Commercial equipment, instruments, or materials are identified only in order to adequately specify certain procedures. In no case does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the products identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose."