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A Brief Review of Bone Adaptation to Unloading

Weight-bearing bone is constantly adapting its structure and function to mechanical environments. Loading through routine exercises stimulates bone formation and prevents bone loss, but unloading through bed rest and cast immobilization as well as exposure to weightlessness during spaceflight reduce...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Ping, Hamamura, Kazunori, Yokota, Hiroki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18558381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1672-0229(08)60016-9