Bone Fracture Reduction Surgery-aimed Bone Connection Robotic Hand

Bone connection with robot is an important topic in the research of robot assisted fracture reduction surgery.With the method to achieve bone-robot connection i...     

Bone poroelasticity

Poroelasticity is a well-developed theory for the interaction of fluid and solid phases of a fluid-saturated porous medium. It is widely used in geomechanics and has been applied to bone by many authors in the last 30 years. The purpose of this work is, first, to review the literature related to the application of poroelasticity to the interstitial bone fluid and, second, to describe the specific physical and modeling considerations that establish poroelasticity as an effective and useful model for deformation-driven bone fluid movement in bone tissue. The application of poroelasticity to bone differs from its application to soft tissues in two important ways. First, the deformations of bone are small while those of soft tissues are generally large. Second, the bulk modulus of the mineralized bone matrix is about six times stiffer than that of the fluid in the pores while the bulk moduli of the soft tissue matrix and the pore water are almost the same. Poroelasticity and electrokinetics can be used to explain strain-generated potentials in wet bone. It is noted that strain-generated potentials can be used as an effective tool in the experimental study of local bone fluid flow, and that the knowledge of this technique will contribute to the answers of a number of questions concerning bone mineralization, osteocyte nutrition and the bone mechanosensory system.     

Murine Hind Limb Long Bone Dissection and Bone Marrow Isolation

Investigation of the bone and the bone marrow is critical in many research fields including basic bone biology, immunology, hematology, cancer metastasis, biomechanics, and stem cell biology. Despite the importance of the bone in healthy and pathologic states, however, it is a largely under-researched organ due to lack of specialized knowledge of bone dissection and bone marrow isolation. Mice are a common model organism to study effects on bone and bone marrow, necessitating a standardized and efficient method for long bone dissection and bone marrow isolation for processing of large experimental cohorts. We describe a straightforward dissection procedure for the removal of the femur and tibia that is suitable for downstream applications, including but not limited to histomorphologic analysis and strength testing. In addition, we outline a rapid procedure for isolation of bone marrow from the long bones via centrifugation with limited handling time, ideal for cell sorting, primary cell culture, or DNA, RNA, and protein extraction. The protocol is streamlined for rapid processing of samples to limit experimental error, and is standardized to minimize user-to-user variability.     

Validation of Bone Conversion in Osteoconductive and Osteoinductive Bone Substitutes

Bone reconstruction can be performed with an autogeneic graft from various donor regions. Osteoconductive and osteoinductive bone substitutes originate from substances of diverse chemical and morphological types and can have a synthetic or a biological derivation. Alongside autogeneic bone transplants and allogenic and xenogeneic bone implants, alloplastic bone replacements of synthetic or semi-synthetic origin are being used for defect reconstruction. In an animal model in rabbits five bone substitutes and one autogeneic graft were surgically incorporated into identical bone defects (10times 10 mm in size) in six anatomically defined regions of the skull. With scintigraphic and histological methods, the metabolic dynamics of the bone is examined as it reacts to the transplantation of autogeneic bone or to implanted bone replacement material. The different autogeneic, xenogeneic and alloplastic bone replacement materials can be differentiated according to the functional quality of the new tissue and the dynamics of the bone conversion thus induced. In the comparison of mineralized, osteoconductive bone subsitutes (TCP, HA, calcium carbonate ceramics) with demineralized, osteoinductive implants (DBM new, DBM old) and autogeneic bone grafts, the bone inducing matrices show the largest quantity of new bone formation, making possible a volume-constant reconstruction. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.