Elsevier

Microvascular Research

Volume 59, Issue 2, March 2000, Pages 290-300
Microvascular Research

Regular Article
A Histomorphometric Observation of Flows in Cortical Bone under Dynamic Loading

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Abstract

Ferritin was used as a histological marker for interstitial fluid flows in four goats. Two transcortical pins were inserted into each tibia mediolaterally—one at the proximal side and one at the distal side of the diaphysis. For the experimental limb, dynamic loading was applied to the pins on the lateral side. The contralateral limb was used as control. Ferritin was injected into the nutrient arteries feeding the two tibiae. The goat was then euthanized immediately. Undecalcified slides of the tibial cortical bone from both the experimental and the control limbs were studied histologically. Percentages of Haversian systems marked with ferritin halos and the average radial distance of ferritin transudation away from the Haversian canals were assessed. Results for the medial and lateral sides of both the experimental and control tibiae were reported. Significant differences in the ferritin transudation distance were found between the experimental and the control tibia (P < 0.005) and between the medial and the lateral sectors (P < 0.05). The approach documented in this paper could be used to address systematically how external loading might affect the transport phenomena in cortical bone.

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