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Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull

The skull is composed of many bones that come together at sutures. These sutures are important sites of growth, and as growth ceases some become fused while others remain patent. Their mechanical behaviour and how they interact with changing form and loadings to ensure balanced craniofacial developm...

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Autores principales: Curtis, Neil, Jones, M. E. H., Evans, S. E., O'Higgins, P., Fagan, M. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23804444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0442
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author Curtis, Neil
Jones, M. E. H.
Evans, S. E.
O'Higgins, P.
Fagan, M. J.
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description The skull is composed of many bones that come together at sutures. These sutures are important sites of growth, and as growth ceases some become fused while others remain patent. Their mechanical behaviour and how they interact with changing form and loadings to ensure balanced craniofacial development is still poorly understood. Early suture fusion often leads to disfiguring syndromes, thus is it imperative that we understand the function of sutures more clearly. By applying advanced engineering modelling techniques, we reveal for the first time that patent sutures generate a more widely distributed, high level of strain throughout the reptile skull. Without patent sutures, large regions of the skull are only subjected to infrequent low-level strains that could weaken the bone and result in abnormal development. Sutures are therefore not only sites of bone growth, but could also be essential for the modulation of strains necessary for normal growth and development in reptiles.
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spelling pubmed-37306982013-09-06 Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull Curtis, Neil Jones, M. E. H. Evans, S. E. O'Higgins, P. Fagan, M. J. J R Soc Interface Research Articles The skull is composed of many bones that come together at sutures. These sutures are important sites of growth, and as growth ceases some become fused while others remain patent. Their mechanical behaviour and how they interact with changing form and loadings to ensure balanced craniofacial development is still poorly understood. Early suture fusion often leads to disfiguring syndromes, thus is it imperative that we understand the function of sutures more clearly. By applying advanced engineering modelling techniques, we reveal for the first time that patent sutures generate a more widely distributed, high level of strain throughout the reptile skull. Without patent sutures, large regions of the skull are only subjected to infrequent low-level strains that could weaken the bone and result in abnormal development. Sutures are therefore not only sites of bone growth, but could also be essential for the modulation of strains necessary for normal growth and development in reptiles. The Royal Society 2013-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3730698/ /pubmed/23804444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0442 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ © 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
title_full Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
title_fullStr Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
title_full_unstemmed Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
title_short Cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
title_sort cranial sutures work collectively to distribute strain throughout the reptile skull
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23804444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0442
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