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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2018

Mechanical Stimuli in the Local In Vivo Environment in Bone: Computational Approaches Linking Organ-Scale Loads to Cellular Signals.

Graeme R Paul, Angad Malhotra, Ralph Müller

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Strategy for achieving standardized bone models.Biotechnology and bioengineering · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Graeme R PaulInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
Angad MalhotraInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
Ralph MüllerInstitute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland. ram@ethz.ch.

Funding

European Research Council 741883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewConnecting organ-scale loads to cellular signals in their local in vivo environment is a current challenge in the field of bone (re)modelling. Understanding this critical missing link would greatly improve our ability to anticipate mechanotransduction during different modes of stimuli and the resultant cellular responses. This review characterises computational approaches that could enable coupling links across the multiple scales of bone. RECENT

findingsCurrent approaches using strain and fluid shear stress concepts have begun to link organ-scale loads to cellular signals; however, these approaches fail to capture localised micro-structural heterogeneities. Furthermore, models that incorporate downstream communication from osteocytes to osteoclasts, bone-lining cells and osteoblasts, will help improve the understanding of (re)modelling activities. Incorporating this potentially key information in the local in vivo environment will aid in developing multiscale models of mechanotransduction that can predict or help describe resultant biological events related to bone (re)modelling. Progress towards multiscale determination of the cell mechanical environment from organ-scale loads remains elusive. Construction of organ-, tissue- and cell-scale computational models that include localised environmental variation, strain amplification and intercellular communication mechanisms will ultimately help couple the hierarchal levels of bone.

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Stress, MechanicalAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaBone and BonesBone RemodelingCell CommunicationHumansMechanotransduction, CellularModels, BiologicalOsteoblastsOsteoclastsOsteocytesSignal TransductionSystems AnalysisWeight-BearingBone (re)modellingComputational systems biomechanicsLocal in vivo environmentMechanical stimulationOsteocytes

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PMID29915967
PMCPMC6579731

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