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Secondary osteons scale allometrically in mammalian humerus and femur

Intra-cortical bone remodelling is a cell-driven process that replaces existing bone tissue with new bone tissue in the bone cortex, leaving behind histological features called secondary osteons. While the scaling of bone dimensions on a macroscopic scale is well known, less is known about how the s...

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Autores principales: Felder, A. A., Phillips, C., Cornish, H., Cooke, M., Hutchinson, J. R., Doube, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29291052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170431