Osteocytes as Mechanosensory Cells: from Extracellular Structure to Intracellular Signals
Osteocytes have been proposed as the mechanosensory cells during the process of bone adaption. In this thesis, a microfluidics chamber system (MCS) device was designed, fabricated and tested as a means to maximally simulate the in vivo osteocytic ultrastructure and reproduce the in vivo shear stress...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19017 |