Volume 7, Issue S2 pp. S397-S401
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Mechanical stress and osteogenesis in vitro

Elisabeth H. Burger

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Elisabeth H. Burger

Department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Center of Dentistry (ACTA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Department of Oral Cell Biology ACTA-VU Van der Boechorststraat 7 NL 1081 BT Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author
Jenneke Klein-Nulend

Jenneke Klein-Nulend

Department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Center of Dentistry (ACTA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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J. Paul Veldhuijzen

J. Paul Veldhuijzen

Department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Center of Dentistry (ACTA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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First published: December 1992
Citations: 82

Abstract

The use of hydrostatic pressure to apply mechanical stress to bone organ cultures is reviewed. Ossifying long bones and calvarial rudiments are sensitive to this type of stress. Intermittent hydrostatic compression of near physiologic magnitude (ICF) has anabolic effects on mineral metabolism in such rudiments, and continuous hydrostatic stress of high magnitude (CCP) has catabolic effects. The effects of ICF may be ascribed to shear stress generated at tissue interphases of different chemical and mechanical properties. Local factors, such as prostaglandins and growth factors, seem to be involved in the tissue response to mechanical stress.

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