title: Can strains give adequate information for adaptive bone remodeling?
abstract: For bone to remodel adaptively, the cells responsible should follow some algorithm. Nine different loading situations and structures are discussed. It seems that either algorithm must be extremely complex, or cells in different structures must follow different algorithms.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001846:Bone Development; D001862:Bone Resorption; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013314:Stress, Mechanical