“…Furthermore, local insulin therapy has been found to improve bone healing and cartilage formation in animal models (Dedania et al, ; Gandhi, Beam, O'Connor, Parsons, & Lin, ; Park et al, ). Other insulin mimetics, such as vanadyl acetylacetonate, magnesium chloride, and sodium tungstate, have been shown to improve the osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs; Schussler et al, ), bone healing (Hreha et al, ) and chondrogenic differentiation (Khader, Sherman, Rameshwar, & Arinzeh, ) respectively. Zinc supplementation in the cell culture medium has been shown to enhance mineralization and osteocalcin gene expression of MC3T3‐E1 osteoblasts (Nagata & Lonnerdal, ).…”