The anabolic activity of bone tissue, suppressed by disuse, is normalized by brief exposure to extremely low-magnitude mechanical stimuli.
D000818:Animals; D001846:Bone Development; D001851:Bone Diseases, Metabolic / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002113:Calcification, Physiologic; D005260:Female; D007103:Immobilization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013977:Tibia / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects*
NASA Discipline Musculoskeletal; Non-NASA Center