Wolff's Law and Connective Tissue Regulation : : Modern Interdisciplinary Comments on Wolff's Law of Connective Tissue Regulation and Rational Understanding of Common Clinical Problems / / ed. by Guenter Regling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abendroth, K.,; Ardenne, M. von,; Arokoski, J.,; Bassett, C. A. L.,; Bauer, E.,; Berg, H.,; Berg, R.,; Bernsmann, K.,; Christophers, R.,; Dehmlow, R.,; Dettmer, N.,; Dostál, C.,; Enderle, A.,; Gabbi, C.,; Graf, J.,; Hager, A.,; Hecht, A.,; Hein, W.,; Helminen, H. J.,; Huggler, A. H.,; Hyttinen, M.,; Jacob, H. A. C.,; Jessen, N.,; Jones, D. B.,; Jurvelin, J.,; Kiviranta, I.,; Krakovits, G. E.,; Kummer, B.,; Labitzke, R.,; Lammi, M.,; Lapveteläinen, T.,; Liboff, A. R.,; Löer, F.,; Löther, R.,; Maquet, P.,; Maquet, Paul,; McLcod, B. R.,; Meister, S.,; Merolli, A.,; Moser., M.,; Niethard, F. U.,; Pangan, R. M.,; Parkkinen, J.,; Paukkonen, K.,; Randoll, U. G.,; Regling, G.,; Regling,, G.,; Rossak, K.,; Rückmann, H.-I.,; Rüttimann, B.,; Schleberger, R.,; Schneider, E. M.,; Schreiber, A.,; Smith, S. D.,; Säämämen, A.-M.,; Tammi, M.,; Thomas, F.,; Tranquilli Leali, P.,; Tsutsumi, S.,; Tunn, P.-U,; Weigmann, R.,; Willert, H.-G.,; Wilsdorf, G.,; Yamamuro, T.,; Zippel, H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Regling, Guenter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-XII -- I. Historical Background -- Julius Wolff and the Law of Bone Remodelling -- A Noteworthy Meeting of the Society for Nature Research in Zurich Two Important Precursors of Julius Wolff: Carl Culmann and Hermann von Meyer -- Julius Wolff and Friedrich Pauwels. Wolff's Concept of a Causal Therapy of Orthopaedic Diseases Using Biological Adaptation Phenomena and Its Realization by Friedrich Pauwels -- Wolff's Law -- II. Theory of Biological Sciences -- Biological Explanation and Principle of Causality -- Adaptation and Compensation as Biological Principles of Medical Thinking and Action -- Feedback Control Processes in Medicine and Technology - a Comparison -- III. Biomechanical Considerations -- Computer Aided Simulation of the Functional Bone Adaptation - a Method to Check a Theory -- The Bone as a Compression Member in a Cable Tensioning Device: The Example of the Hip -- Stress-Shape Relationship during Treatment of a Congenital Dislocation of the Hip -- Computer Simulation of Bone Remodelling in Dentistry and Orthopaedics -- Computerized Reconstruction for the Study of the Three-dimensional Architecture of Trabecular Bone -- IV. Electrophysiological Aspects -- Wolffs Law and Its Biophysical Implications -- How Do Cells Respond to the Mechanical Environment? -- Control of Embryonic Chick Bone Growth by Resonant Electromagnetic Fields -- Electrostimulation in Biology, Utilities and Side Effects -- An integrative Concept for an Electrophysiological Signal System in the Connective Tissue Matrix. The Native Collagen Fibrils as Biosensor and Signal-Conducting Structure Between Nerve and Cell as Well as in the Intercellular Matrix, and a Discussion of the Underlying Mechanism -- V. Blood Supply and Metabolism -- Intraosseous Pressure of the Human Patella -- The Mechanoreceptor Hypothesis for Remodeling of Bone and the Influence of Fluorid Therapy for Osteoporosis on It -- Metaphyseal Stress Shielding and Transarticular Load Transfer - a Biomechanical Concept of Osteopenia -- Bone Remodelling in Disuse Osteoporosis -- Selenite, Nitrate, and Mercury and their Influence on Regulation Principles in Connective Tissue -- The Biological Role of Oxygen Radicals, Lipid Peroxidation, and Antioxidative Therapy in Connective Tissue Regulation -- VI. Special Clinical Problems -- Model Investigations on the Loading of Bone in the Area of Hip-Joint Prostheses, and New Prosthesis Designs in Consideration of Wolff's Law -- Modes of Adaptation in Noncemented Total Hip Endoprosthesis -- Cementless Implantation of the Stem of Different Types of Standard Hip Endoprosthesis -- Bone Adaptation to Dynamic Osteosynthetic Implants -- Complex Biophysical-Chemical Therapies for Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- VII. Soft Tissue Regulation, Arthrosis, and Arthritis -- Superficial Zone of Articular Cartilage after Immobilization and Running Training: Is Proteoglycan Depletion the Clue to the Pathogenesis of Osteoarthrosis? -- Feedback Mechanism in the Synovial System -- Oxygen-Multistep Therapy in Degenerative Diseases of The locomotor System -- Intra-articular Measurement of Resting Synovial pO2 (Oxygen Partial Pressure of Synovial Fluid) - a New Point of Intersection for Clinical Research in the Areas of Arthrosis and Pain -- Immunologic and Immunogenic Background in the Understanding of the Pathogenesis of Lyme Disease -- A Biological Examination of Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: The Example of Spondylitis Ankylopoietica (Bekhterev's Disease) -- List of First Authors