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Liyun Wang1

  • 1Center for Biomechanical Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 130 Academy Street, Newark, DE, 19716, USA. lywang@udel.edu.

Current Osteoporosis Reports
|January 20, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Lacunar-canalicular systemMolecular sievingOsteocytePericellular matrixPerlecanSolute diffusion and convection

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