Mechanical Loading of Bones and Joints

Front Matter....Pages II-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Biomechanical “Face” of Osteoporosis: Emerging Views with Insights from the Utah Paradigm....Pages 3-12
The Present State and Future Prospects for Bone Mass Measurement....Pages 13-23
Anisotropic Behavior in Viscoelasticity and Fracture Mechanics of Compact Bone....Pages 25-33
Development and Differentiation of Macrophages, Osteoclasts, and Dendritic Cells....Pages 35-41
Histomorphometric and Node-Strut Analysis of Effects of Exercise or Incadronate Disodium on hPTH (1–34)-Induced Bone Mass in Ovariectomized Rats....Pages 43-56
Human Parathyroid Hormone (1–34) Increases Cortical Bone Mass by Activating Bone Modeling in the Formation Mode in Ovariectomized Rats....Pages 57-67
Osteoporotic Vertebral Pseudarthrosis: Another Instability of the Spine....Pages 69-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Mechanics of Bone Adaptation....Pages 79-91
Biomechanics of Articular Joints: Review of a Decade of Progress of the Niigata Biomechanics Group....Pages 93-103
Mechanical Unloading and Bone Marrow Cells....Pages 105-113
Changes in Bone Tissue of Tail-Suspended Rats....Pages 115-122
Bending Load and Bone Formation Response....Pages 123-130
Adaptive Bone Remodeling Under Mechanical Stimuli....Pages 131-138
Bone Microdamage and Its Repair: Pathophysiology of Bone Fatigue....Pages 139-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
The Immune System Under the Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System....Pages 149-157
Effects of Stem Loosening on Periprosthetic Bone Remodeling After Cementless Hip Replacement....Pages 159-171
Abnormalities in Bone Marrow of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis....Pages 173-180
Extrathymic Differentiation of Resident T Cells in the Joint and Rheumatoid Arthritis....Pages 181-195
Relationship Between HLA-DRB1-DQB1 Haplotypes and the Effect of Chicken Cartilage Soup Containing Type II Collagen on Rheumatoid Arthritis....Pages 197-205
Notes on the Disease Mechanism and Genetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis....Pages 207-214
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Apoptosis Is a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for RA: Investigations Using an Experimental Arthritis Animal Model....Pages 215-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Evaluation of Dynamic Stress of the Cervical Spinal Cord Using a High-Resolution Positron Emission Tomography....Pages 229-236
Dynamics of Cauda Equina Compression in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis....Pages 237-243
Neurophysiological Changes of the Nerve Root Induced by Mechanical Compression....Pages 245-258
Compound Muscle Action Potentials Under Dynamic Stress in Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis....Pages 259-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Immobilization Osteopenia—Bone Loss After Arthroplastic Surgery....Pages 269-277
Characterization of Osteoblast Progenitor Cells in Human Iliac Bone Marrow....Pages 279-285
Trabecular Bone Turnover and Bone Marrow Capacity for Bone Cells in Immobilization-Related Bone Loss....Pages 287-293
 Cbfa1 Is a Master Gene for Osteoblast Differentiation....Pages 295-301
Which Activates Mechanotransduction in Bone—Extracellular Fluid Flow or Mechanical Strain?....Pages 303-309
Bone Resorption Is Inhibited by an Osteocyte-Derived Protein....Pages 311-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-324