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Mechanical loading of mouse caudal vertebrae increases trabecular and cortical bone mass-dependence on dose and genotype.
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology - 1 Dec 2010
Webster Duncan, Wasserman Elad, Ehrbar Martin, Weber Franz, Bab Itai, Müller Ralph
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Most in vivo studies addressing the skeletal responses of mice to mechanical loading have targeted cortical bone. To investigate trabecular bone responses also we have developed a caudal vertebral axial compression device (CVAD) that transmits mechanical loads to compress the fifth caudal vertebra via stainless steel pins inserted into the forth and sixth caudal vertebral bodies. Here, we used the CVAD in C57BL/6...
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