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Research Article| Volume 1, ISSUE 4, P279-286, 1970

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The electrical response to stress in dried, recently excised, and living bone

  • N.St.J.P. Dwyer
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    Requests for reprints should be addressed to:—N. St.J. P. Dwyer, Esq., M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Eng. and Edin.), Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham 31.
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    Formerly of Department of Orthopaedics, Bristol Royal Infirmary, now at Birmingham Accident Hospital, UK
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  • B. Matthews
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    Department of Physiology, The Medical School, University of Bristol, UK
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-1383(70)80239-X
The electrical response to stress in dried, recently excised, and living bone
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      • 1.
        Experiments have been carried out to compare the electrical responses of dried, recently excised, and living bones when subjected to stress.
      • 2.
        The effect of drying was to decrease the size of the peak voltage developed and, instead of decaying rapidly towards zero, the response became more sustained.
      • 3.
        Responses could be recorded from living bone with only minimal disturbances of the adjacent muscles.
      • 4.
        The results suggest that bone responds mainly to changes in load and that the state of the bone determines the form in which this response is recorded.
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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-1383(70)80239-X

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