Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis

Book Overview

Part I: Cell Biology

1. Isolation Of Osteocytes From Mature and Aged Murine Bone

Amber Rath Stern and Lynda F. Bonewald

2. Primary Murine Growth Plate and Articular Chondrocyte Isolation and Culture

Jennifer H. Jonason, Donna Hoak, and Regis J. O'Keefe

3. Isolating Endosteal Mesenchymal Progenitors From Rodent Long Bones

Ji Zhu, Valerie A. Siclari, and Ling Qin

4. Engineering Cartilage Tissue By Pellet Co-Culture Of Chondrocytes And Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

Ling Wu, Janine N. Post, and Marcel Karperien

5. Generation Of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

David R. Deyle

Part II: Molecular Biology

6. Profiling Histone Modifications By Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Coupled To Deep Sequencing in Skeletal Cells

Mark B. Meyer, Nancy A. Benkusky, and J. Wesley Pike

7. Identification Of Micrornas In Human Plasma

Bram C. Van Der Eerden, Rodrigo D. Alves, Christel E. Kockx, Zeliha Ozgur, Marijke Schreuders-Koedam, Jeroen Van De Peppel, Wilfred F. Van Ijcken, and Johannes P. Van Leeuwen

8. Immunohistochemistry Of Skeletal Tissues

Crystal Idleburg, Elizabeth N. Delassus, And Deborah V. Novack

Part III: Biomechanics and Imaging

9. In Vivo Axial Loading Of The Mouse Tibia

Katherine M. Melville, Alexander G. Robling, and Marjolein C. H. Van Der Meulen

10. Four Point Bending Protocols To Study The Effects Of Dynamic Strain In Osteoblastic Cells In Vitro

Gabriel L. Galea and Joanna S. Price

11. Epic- ct Imaging Of Articular Cartilage

Angela S.P. Lin, Giuliana E. Salazar-Noratto, and Robert E. Guldberg

Part IV: In Vivo Models Of Disease and Repair

12. Mouse Models Of Osteoarthritis: Surgical Model Of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Induced By Destabilization Of The Medial Meniscus

Cecilia L. Dragomir, Jun Chang, Elisabeth B. Wondimu, Jonathan Coico, Darren A. Plumb, Miguel Otero, Kirsty L. Culley, and Mary B. Goldring

13. Assessment Of Knee Joint Pain In Experimental Rodent Models Of Osteoarthritis

Margaret J. Piel, Jeffrey S. Kroin, and Hee-Jeong Im

14. Induction Of Fully Stabilized Cortical Bone Defects To Study Intramembranous Bone Regeneration

Meghan E. Mcgee-Lawrence and David F. Razidlo

15. Surgical Procedures And Experimental Outcomes Of Closed Fractures In Rodent Models Hicham Drissi and David N. Paglia

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493955276
• ISBN13: 9781493955275
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"