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ArticleJournal of biomechanics2015

Blood and interstitial flow in the hierarchical pore space architecture of bone tissue.

Stephen C Cowin, Luis Cardoso

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Article in Journal of biomechanics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Stephen C CowinDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. Electronic address: sccowin@gmail.com.
Luis CardosoThe Department of Biomedical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering of The City College, The Graduate School of The City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA.

Funding

Mechanical Function of Trabecular Bone: Bone Loss Assessment Beyond BMDSC1DK103362 · NIDDK · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI CARDOSO, LUIS · 2014 to 2017
$1.3M
Age Related Bone Loss Assessed by Ultrasound Tomography: Bone Quality Beyond BMDSC2AG034198 · NIA · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI CARDOSO, LUIS · 2009 to 2011
$434k
NIA NIH HHS AG34198NIA NIH HHS SC2 AG034198NIDDK NIH HHS DK103362NIDDK NIH HHS SC1 DK103362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are two main types of fluid in bone tissue, blood and interstitial fluid. The chemical composition of these fluids varies with time and location in bone. Blood arrives through the arterial system containing oxygen and other nutrients and the blood components depart via the venous system containing less oxygen and reduced nutrition. Within the bone, as within other tissues, substances pass from the blood through the arterial walls into the interstitial fluid. The movement of the interstitial fluid carries these substances to the cells within the bone and, at the same time, carries off the waste materials from the cells. Bone tissue would not live without these fluid movements. The development of a model for poroelastic materials with hierarchical pore space architecture for the description of blood flow and interstitial fluid flow in living bone tissue is reviewed. The model is applied to the problem of determining the exchange of pore fluid between the vascular porosity and the lacunar-canalicular porosity in bone tissue due to cyclic mechanical loading and blood pressure. These results are basic to the understanding of interstitial flow in bone tissue that, in turn, is basic to understanding of nutrient transport from the vasculature to the bone cells buried in the bone tissue and to the process of mechanotransduction by these cells.

Indexed as

Bone and BonesModels, TheoreticalRegional Blood FlowBlood PressureExtracellular FluidHumansMechanotransduction, CellularOsteocytesPorosityBlood flowCortical boneInterstitial fluid flow

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PMID25666410
PMCPMC4489573

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