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