A new device to control mechanical environment in bone defect healing in rats

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2696-2702

  Strube, Patrick ^a   Mehta, Manav ^a   Putzier, Michael ^a   Matziolis, Georg ^a   Perka, Carsten ^a   Duda, Georg N ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Bone defect healing; External fixator; Mechanical environment; Rat femur

Indexed keywords

BONE; DEFECTS; FRACTURE FIXATION; RATS; STEEL; STIFFNESS; TITANIUM; WIRE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL MODELS; AXIAL STIFFNESS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING; BONE DEFECT HEALING; BONE DEFECTS; BONE HEALING; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FIXATOR; IMPLANT MATERIALS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MECHANICAL CONDITIONING; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; NEW DEVICES; RAT FEMUR; SMALL ANIMAL MODELS; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; TORSIONAL STIFFNESSES;

FRACTURE;

STEEL; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIXATION DEVICE; FRACTURE HEALING; IMPLANT; IN VITRO STUDY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TORSION; WELLBEING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 49449101586     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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