In vivo tracking of segmental bone defect healing reveals that callus patterning is related to early mechanical stimuli

European Cells and Materials

Volumn 24, Issue , 2012, Pages 358-371

  Mehta, Manav ^a,b   Checa, Sara ^a   Lienau, Jasmin ^a   Hutmacher, Dietmar ^c   Duda, Georg N ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone healing; critical healing patterns; Finite element; In vivo imaging; Micro computed tomography; Non unions; Segmental bone defect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CALLUS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; PERIOSTEUM; RAT; ANIMAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BONY CALLUS; FEMALE; FEMUR; OSTEOTOMY; PERIOSTEUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WOUND HEALING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875545922     PISSN: 14732262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22203/eCM.v024a26     Document Type: Article

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