Putting the "why" back into bone "archytecture"

• Main Author: Phil Salmon (auth)
• Other Authors: Daniel Chappard (auth), Andrew Anthony Pitsillides (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Bone architecture; coupling; Bone biomaterials; remodelling; Trabecular bone; morphometry; Mechanotransduction; Growth and Development; Nonlinear pattern formation; Cortical bone
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A large literature exists on trabecular and cortical bone morphology. The engineering performance of bone, implied from its 3d architecture, is often the endpoint of bone biology experiments, being clinically relevant to bone fracture. How and why does bone travel along its complex spatio-temporal t...