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An approach to quantifying bone overloading and hypertrophy with applications to multiple experimental studies.

J C Chen¹, G S Beaupré, D R Carter

¹Bone & Joint Rehabilitation R&D Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA. julchen@stanford.edu

|October 6, 2009

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This study introduces a daily strain stimulus to unify mechanical bone loading data in rodents. This parameter helps compare studies and may predict bone formation rates more consistently.

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Area of Science:

Biomechanics
Skeletal Biology
Mechanobiology

Background:

Mechanically induced bone formation studies in rodents use varied loading schemes, hindering result comparison.
Existing methods lack a unifying parameter to standardize mechanical stimuli applied to long bones.
Periosteal cortical bone apposition rates are commonly measured outcomes in response to mechanical loading.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a theoretical framework for evaluating mechanical stimulus using a bone daily strain stimulus.
To establish a single parameter for direct comparison of data from in vivo rodent bone loading experiments.
To apply the developed framework to twenty previous rat and mouse studies.

Main Methods:

Calculated the periosteal daily strain stimulus necessary for bone maintenance (xi(peri,0)) and the strain-cycle weighting exponent (m).
Utilized data from Rubin and Lanyon's bone maintenance studies for the first approach.
Employed Fritton et al.'s strain gage recordings for the second approach, incorporating human bone fatigue properties.

Main Results:

Two approaches yielded different ranges for daily strain stimuli (2793–17312 microstrain/day vs. 1496–7681 microstrain/day).
Calculated xi(peri,0) values were below fracture levels in both approaches.
Bone apposition rates generally increased with higher daily strain stimuli, aligning with theoretical models.

Conclusions:

The daily strain stimulus offers a consistent parameter for comparing rodent bone loading studies.
This parameter may serve as a reasonable approximation for predicting bone apposition rates.
The daily strain stimulus framework can aid in designing future bone loading experiments.