Fluid and solute transport in bone: Flow-induced mechanotransduction

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2009, Pages 347-374

  Fritton, Susannah P ^a   Weinbaum, Sheldon ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Canaliculi; Fluid flow; Interstitial fluid; Lacuna; Lacunar canalicular porosity; Osteocyte

Indexed keywords

CANALICULI; FLUID FLOW; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LACUNA; LACUNAR-CANALICULAR POROSITY; OSTEOCYTE;

BONE; CELL MEMBRANES; FLUIDS; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BONE; FLUID FLOW; MODELING; POROSITY; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

LACUNA;

EID: 67651027592     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.010908.165136     Document Type: Review

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