Bone's mechanostat: a 2003 update.

By H. Frost. Anatomical Record Part A-discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology, 2003

1,496 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Genetics, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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In Epidemiology

1. Richard Weinkamer
2. P. Fratzl

In Genetics

1. Richard Weinkamer
2. P. Fratzl

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. Richard Weinkamer
2. P. Fratzl

Citations in the corpus

• The National Osteoporosis Foundation’s position statement on peak bone mass development and lifestyle factors: a systematic review and implementation recommendations (2016, background): “Physical activity has long been regarded as behavior likely to influence bone health [77, 78].”
• Nature’s hierarchical materials (2007, background): “The term mechanostat was coined to describe this process, in analogy with a thermostat, which switches a heater on or off according to its set-points [277,278].”