Bone, Volume 3: Bone Matrix and Bone Specific Products

This is the third volume of a seven-volume series devoted to bone. The series is intended to provide biologists, basic medical scientists, clinicians, and students with a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of all aspects of bone.

Volume 3 begins with comparative analyses of the microstructure of bone, mechanisms of osteogenesis, and patterns of bone growth. The biomechanical and bioelectrical properties of bone and the response of bone to mechanical and electrical stimulation are treated in two chapters in which in vivo and in vitro studies are integrated. The implications of mechanical and electrical properties for orthopedics, osteoporosis, and exercise physiology are also discussed in these chapters. Later chapters discuss the patterns and effects of altering the vascular or nervous supply on bone. The localization, synthesis, mutation, and clinical use of measurement levels for collagens, osteonectin, and osteocalcin are also discussed at length.