Osteocytes: Mechanosensors of bone and orchestrators of mechanical adaptation

Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 195-209

  Klein Nulend, Jenneke ^a   Bakker, Astrid D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bone remodeling; Fluid flow; Fluid shear stress; Mechanical adaptation; Mechanosensing; Mechanotransduction; Osteocyte

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; APOPTOSIS; BONE INJURY; BONE REMODELING; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CYTOSKELETON; FATIGUE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; REVIEW; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 57849143782     PISSN: 15348644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12018-008-9014-6     Document Type: Review

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