Application of structural rigidity analysis to assess fidelity of healed fractures in rat femurs with critical defects

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 397-403

  Nazarian, Ara ^a   Pezzella, Lina ^a   Tseng, Alan ^a   Baldassarri, Stephen ^a   Zurakowski, David ^b   Evans, Christopher H ^a   Snyder, Brian D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Healing strength; Rat model; Segmental defect; Structural rigidity analysis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; MALE; MECHANICAL TORSION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGIDITY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953356901     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-010-9353-4     Document Type: Article

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