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Effect of glycaemic control on growth factor release and in-vitro biological properties of advanced and injectable platelet-rich fibrin in type 2 diabetes Mellitus.

Frontiers in dental medicine · Kashyap Shanker R, Rao A, Prabhu A, Kumar V, Narayani S, Das R, Hegde A · 2026-08-11

Researchers compared platelet-rich fibrin preparations from people with controlled diabetes, uncontrolled diabetes, and non-diabetics, finding that uncontrolled diabetes reduced several key growth factors compared to healthy controls, while well-controlled diabetes showed similar biological properties to non-diabetic participants.

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