Bone remodeling: A tissue-level process emerging from cell-level molecular algorithms

CF Arias, MA Herrero, LF Echeverri, GE Oleaga… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The human skeleton undergoes constant remodeling throughout the lifetime. Processes
occurring on microscopic and molecular scales degrade bone and replace it with new, fully …

The role of osteocytes in targeted bone remodeling: a mathematical model

JM Graham, BP Ayati, SA Holstein, JA Martin - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Until recently many studies of bone remodeling at the cellular level have focused on the
behavior of mature osteoblasts and osteoclasts, and their respective precursor cells, with the …

Spatio-temporal structure of cell distribution in cortical bone multicellular units: a mathematical model

PR Buenzli, P Pivonka, DW Smith - Bone, 2011 - Elsevier
Bone remodelling maintains the functionality of skeletal tissue by locally coordinating bone-
resorbing cells (osteoclasts) and bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) in the form of Bone …

Computational modeling of bone fracture non-unions: four clinically relevant case studies

A Carlier, J Lammens, H Van Oosterwyck… - In Silico Cell and Tissue …, 2015 - Springer
The human skeleton has a remarkable regeneration capacity. Nevertheless, 5–10% of the
bone fractures fails to heal and develops into a non-union which is a challenging orthopedic …

Osteoprotegerin in bone metastases: mathematical solution to the puzzle

MD Ryser, Y Qu, SV Komarova - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Bone is a common site for cancer metastasis. To create space for their growth, cancer cells
stimulate bone resorbing osteoclasts. Cytokine RANKL is a key osteoclast activator, while …

Direct assessment of rabbit cortical bone basic multicellular unit longitudinal erosion rate: a 4D synchrotron‐based approach

KD Harrison, E Sales, BD Hiebert… - Journal of Bone and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cortical bone remodeling is carried out by basic multicellular units (BMUs), which couple
resorption to formation. Although fluorochrome labeling has facilitated study of BMU …

Endocortical bone loss in osteoporosis: the role of bone surface availability

PR Buenzli, CDL Thomas, JG Clement… - … journal for numerical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related bone loss and postmenopausal osteoporosis are due to a dysregulation of
bone remodelling in which less bone is reformed than resorbed. This dysregulation of bone …

A review of mathematical modeling of bone remodeling from a systems biology perspective

CV Cook, AM Lighty, BJ Smith… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Bone remodeling is an essential, delicately balanced physiological process of coordinated
activity of bone cells that remove and deposit new bone tissue in the adult skeleton. Due to …

Bone refilling in cortical basic multicellular units: insights into tetracycline double labelling from a computational model

PR Buenzli, P Pivonka, DW Smith - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2014 - Springer
Bone remodelling is carried out by 'bone multicellular units'(BMU s) in which active
osteoclasts and active osteoblasts are spatially and temporally coupled. The refilling of new …

Primal-mixed formulations for reaction–diffusion systems on deforming domains

R Ruiz-Baier - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose a finite element formulation for a coupled elasticity–reaction–diffusion system
written in a fully Lagrangian form and governing the spatio-temporal interaction of species …