Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound accelerates rat femoral fracture healing by acting on the various cellular reactions in the fracture callus

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 671-680

  Azuma, Yoshiaki ^a   Ito, Masaya ^a   Harada, Yoshifumi ^a   Takagi, Hideko ^a   Ohta, Tomohiro ^a   Jingushi, Seiya ^b  

^a TEIJIN LTD   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fracture callus; Fracture healing; Low intensity pulsed ultrasound; Mechanical properties; Mechanical stress

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; BONE REMODELING; CALLUS; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; RAT; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; BONY CALLUS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, CLOSED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSTEOGENESIS; PLIABILITY; RATS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORQUE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0035082742     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.2001.16.4.671     Document Type: Article

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