Comparative study of how low-level laser therapy and low-intensity pulsed ultrasound affect bone repair in rats

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 735-740

  Lirani Galvão, Ana Paula ^a,b   Jorgetti, Vanda ^a   Lopes Da Silva, Orivaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BIODIVERSITY; BONE; CELLS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

BONE REPAIR; BONE RESORPTION; LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND (LIPUS); OSTEOCLAST SURFACES;

LASER SURGERY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOW INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOID; OSTEOLYSIS; RAT; TIBIA OSTEOTOMY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIBIA; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 33846259389     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2006.24.735     Document Type: Article

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