Fracutre healing in rats exposed to extremely low-frequency electric fields.
Fibular osteotomies in rats were exposed to an extremely low frequency field for 14 days. By histologic evaluation it was found that the healing rate was retarded by the field. The effect (which was replicated) occurred at much lower power levels than are presently employed in electircal osteogenesis.
D000818:Animals; D002146:Bony Callus; D002356:Cartilage; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000379:methods; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000628:therapy*; D008280:Magnetics; D051381:Rats; D014945:Wound Healing