Changing Concepts in Skeletal Physiology: Wolff's Law, the Mechanostat, and the "Utah Paradigm"

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 599-605

  Frost, Harold M ^a  

^a Southern Colorado Clinic   (United States)

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EID: 0001122755     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6300(1998)10:5<599::AID-AJHB6>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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