Mechanical stimulation of bone cells using fluid flow

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • M.H. Helfrich
  • S.H. Ralston
Book title Bone Research Protocols
ISBN
  • 9781617794148
  • 9781493961009
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781617794155
Series Methods in Molecular Biology
Edition 2nd
Pages (from-to) 573-592
Publisher New York: Humana Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Dentistry (ACTA)
Abstract This chapter describes several methods suitable for mechanically stimulating monolayers of bone cells by fluid shear stress (FSS) in vitro. Fluid flow is generated by pumping culture medium through two parallel plates, one of which contains a monolayer of cells. Methods for measuring nitric oxide production by bone cells in response to FSS are also described.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-415-5_36
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