Mechanobiology of embryonic skeletal development: Insights from animal models

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-213

  Nowlan, Niamh C ^a,b   Sharpe, James ^a   Roddy, Karen A ^b   Prendergast, Patrick J ^b   Murphy, Paula ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bone; Immobilization; Joints; Mechanical forces; Muscle contractions; Ossification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHICK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MOVEMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT FUNCTION; MAMMAL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; JOINTS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OSTEOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77956665556     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20184     Document Type: Review

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