Plant stems: a possible model system for the transduction of mechanical information in bone modeling.
As a grass stem bends in the wind, signals at the subcellular level initiate a process of stem strengthening. The same happens in human bones. What have the two got in common?
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D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena