Murine axial compression tibial loading model to study bone mechanobiology: implementing the model and reporting results

RP Main, SJ Shefelbine, LB Meakin… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In vivo, tibial loading in mice is increasingly used to study bone adaptation and
mechanotransduction. To achieve standardized and defined experimental conditions …

Supercritical carbon dioxide and biomedicine: Opening the doors towards biocompatibility

A Tabernero, Á González-Garcinuño, S Cardea… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Supercritical CO 2 techniques are promising technologies for developing products that can
be useful for biomedical engineering. However, the obtained products (aerogels, foams …

Stress and alterations in bones: an interdisciplinary perspective

PM Wippert, M Rector, G Kuhn… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Decades of research have demonstrated that physical stress (PS) stimulates bone
remodeling and affects bone structure and function through complex mechanotransduction …

Effects of loading duration and short rest insertion on cancellous and cortical bone adaptation in the mouse tibia

H Yang, RE Embry, RP Main - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The skeleton's osteogenic response to mechanical loading can be affected by loading
duration and rest insertion during a series of loading events. Prior animal loading studies …

Adaptive changes in micromechanical environments of cancellous and cortical bone in response to in vivo loading and disuse

H Yang, X Xu, W Bullock, RP Main - Journal of biomechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
The skeleton accommodates changes in mechanical environments by increasing bone
mass under increased loads and decreasing bone mass under disuse. However, little is …

Mechanical regulation of bone formation and resorption around implants in a mouse model of osteopenic bone

Z Li, D Betts, G Kuhn, M Schirmer… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although mechanical stimulation is considered a promising approach to accelerate implant
integration, our understanding of load-driven bone formation and resorption around implants …

Functional adaptation of bone: the mechanostat and beyond

P Pivonka, A Park, MR Forwood - Multiscale mechanobiology of bone …, 2018 - Springer
The conceptual model of the mechanostat proposed by Harold Frost in 1983 is among the
most significant contributions to musculoskeletal research today. This model states that bone …

Bone: a fertile soil for cancer metastasis

TR Coughlin, R Romero-Moreno, DE Mason… - Current drug …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Bone is one of the most common and most dangerous sites for metastatic growth across
cancer types, and bone metastasis remains incurable. Unfortunately, the processes by …

Reconstruction of load-bearing segmental bone defects using carbonate apatite honeycomb blocks

K Shibahara, K Hayashi, Y Nakashima… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In a globally aging society, synthetic bone blocks are in increasing demand. An ideal
synthetic bone block fuses early with bone and is replaced with new bone at a suitable …

Development of an in vivo bone fatigue damage model using axial compression of the rabbit forelimb

EG Buettmann, MJ Silva - Journal of biomechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
Many nontraumatic fractures seen clinically in patients with metabolic bone disorders or on
antiresorptive treatment show an increased incidence of microdamage accumulation and …