Primary Human Osteoblast Cultures / Jane P. Dillon ... [et Al.] -- Osteoblast Isolation From Murine Calvaria And Long Bones / Astrid D. Bakker And Jenneke Klein-nulend -- Rat Osteoblast Cultures / Isabel R. Orriss, Sarah E.b. Taylor, And Timothy R. Arnett -- Isolation Of Primary Avian Osteocytes / Cor M. Semeins, Astrid D. Bakker, And Jenneke Klein-nulend -- Isolation Of Mouse Osteocytes Using Cell Fractionation For Gene Expression Analysis/ Christine Halleux ... [et Al.] -- Studying Osteocyte Function Using The Cell Lines Mlo-y4 And Mlo-a5 / Jennifer Rosser And Lynda F. Bonewald -- Isolation, Differentiation, And Characterisation Of Skeletal Stem Cells From Human Bone Marrow In Vitro And In Vivo / Rahul S. Tare ... [et Al.] -- Rodent Osteoclast Cultures / Isabel R. Orriss And Timothy R. Arnett -- Isolation And Culture Of Primary Chicken Osteoclasts / Patricia Collin-osdoby And Philip Osdoby. Isolation And Purification Of Rabbit Osteoclasts / Fraser P. Coxon, Michael J. Rogers, And Julie C. Crockett -- Generation Of Human Osteoclasts From Peripheral Blood / Kim Henriksen ... [et Al.] -- Osteoclast Formation In Mouse Co-cultures / Cecile Itzstein And Robert J. Van 't Hof -- Rankl-mediated Osteoclast Formation From Murine Raw 264.7 Cells / Patricia Collin-osdoby And Philip Osdoby -- Transfection Of Osteoclasts And Osteoclast Precursors / Julie C. Crockett, David J. Mellis, And Adam Taylor -- Analysis Of Signalling Pathways By Western Blotting And Immunoprecipitation / Aymen I. Idris -- Analysis Of Transcriptional Regulation In Bone Cells / Huilin Jin And Stuart H. Ralston -- Extraction Of Nucleic Acids From Bone / Alun Hughes, Tracy L. Stewart, And Val Mann -- Analysis Of Gene Expression In Bone By Quantitative Rt/pcr / Alun Hughes. Histomorphometry In Rodents / Reinhold G. Erben And Martin GlΓΆsmann -- Studying Gene Expression In Bone By In Situ Hybridization / Ina Kramer ... [et Al.] -- Immunostaining Of Skeletal Tissues / Tobias B. Kurth And Cosimo De Bari -- Techniques For The Study Of Apoptosis In Bone / Sudeh Riahi And Brendon Noble -- Transmission Electron Microscopy Of Bone / Vincent Everts ... [et Al.] -- Scanning Electron Microscopy Of Bone / Alan Boyde -- Fluorescence Imaging Of Osteoclasts Using Confocal Microscopy / Fraser P. Coxon -- Live Imaging Of Bone Cell And Organ Cultures / Sarah L. Dallas And Patricia A. Veno -- Analysis Of Bone Architecture In Rodents Using Microcomputed Tomography / Robert J. Van 't Hof -- Bone Measurements By Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography In Rodents / JΓΌrg A. Gasser And Johannes Willnecker. Quantitative X-ray Imaging Of Rodent Bone By Faxitron / J.h. Duncan Bassett ... [et Al.] -- Bioluminescence Imaging Of Bone Metastasis In Rodents / Thomas J.a. Snoeks ... [et Al.] -- Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging Of Bone / Eleftherios P. Paschalis -- Raman Microscopy Of Bone / Simon R. Goodyear And Richard M. Aspden -- The Calvarial Injection Assay / Robert J. Van 't Hof -- Ovariectomy/orchidectomy In Rodents / Aymen I. Idris -- Mechanical Properties Of Bone Ex Vivo / Simon R. Goodyear And Richard M. Aspden -- Mechanical Stimulation Of Bone Cells Using Fluid Flow / Carmen Huesa And Astrid D. Bakker -- Using Cell And Organ Culture Models To Analyze Responses Of Bone Cells To Mechanical Stimulation / Andrew A. Pitsillides And Simon C.f. Rawlinson -- In Vivo Mechanical Loading / Roberto Lopes De Souza And Leanne Saxon. Edited By Miep H. Helfrich, Stuart H. Ralston. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.