Mouse tail vertebrae adapt to cyclic mechanical loading by increasing bone formation rate and decreasing bone resorption rate as shown by time-lapsed in vivo imaging of dynamic bone morphometry

Bone

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1340-1350

  Lambers, Floor M ^a   Schulte, Friederike A ^a   Kuhn, Gisela ^a   Webster, Duncan J ^a   Müller, Ralph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bone adaptation; Bone strength; Dynamic bone morphometry; In vivo micro computed tomography; Mechanical loading

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; TAIL; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BONE RESORPTION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OSTEOGENESIS; SPINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TAIL; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 81355127344     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2011.08.035     Document Type: Article

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