The skeleton has provided many advantages during the course of vertebrate evolution, but it has also contained limitations that have strongly influenced bone biology. These limitations have included weight and the potential for fatigue failure. Calcified bone tissue is approximately twice as heavy a
Remodeling and the repair of fatigue damage
โ Scribed by David B. Burr
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 907 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-0827
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