Mechanical properties of OI type III bon
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Zaifeng Fan; Peter A. Smith; Eugene C. Eckstein; Gerald F. Harris
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Nanoindentation was used to characterize the intrinsic mechanical properties of bone tissue from eight (8) children with type III Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). The bone samples were harvested from the cortex portion at the site of bowing (the mid 2/3 of the shaft of the tibia/femur). Un