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[The healing of bone fractures in rats during the readaptation after a 14-day head-down suspension]. 1992

G N Durnova, and T E Burkovskaia, and A S Kaplanskiĭ

Histological, histochemical and histomorphometric methods have been used to study an effect of a 14-day head-down suspension on healing the fractured fibular diaphysis in the rats traumatized immediately after suspension. The study of the fibulae on Days 11 and 17 following an operative fracture indicated that both in control and experimental rats the ends of fractured bones were tightly interconnected by the calluses. A comparative study of the calluses and their structural components as well as detailed investigation of histological structure of calluses on the 11th and 17th post-traumatic days did not reveal significant differences between control and experimental animals. Furthermore, the rate of cartilage replacement by spongy bone tissue in calluses of experimental animals was even somewhat higher than that in control rats. Thus the data obtained give ground to believe that in a readaptation period after 14-day suspension resulting in the osteoporotic changes of weight-bearing bones a repair process in the bones is rapidly normalized and in some parameters exceeds it in control animals.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D011187	Posture	The position or physical attitude of the body.	Postures
D005360	Fibula	The bone of the lower leg lateral to and smaller than the tibia. In proportion to its length, it is the most slender of the long bones.	Fibulas
D000222	Adaptation, Physiological	The non-genetic biological changes of an organism in response to challenges in its ENVIRONMENT.	Adaptation, Physiologic,Adaptations, Physiologic,Adaptations, Physiological,Adaptive Plasticity,Phenotypic Plasticity,Physiological Adaptation,Physiologic Adaptation,Physiologic Adaptations,Physiological Adaptations,Plasticity, Adaptive,Plasticity, Phenotypic
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D013997	Time Factors	Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.	Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor
D014893	Weightlessness	Condition in which no acceleration, whether due to gravity or any other force, can be detected by an observer within a system. It also means the absence of weight or the absence of the force of gravity acting on a body. Microgravity, gravitational force between 0 and 10 -6 g, is included here. (From NASA Thesaurus, 1988)	Microgravity,Zero Gravity,Gravity, Zero
D017102	Fracture Healing	The physiological restoration of bone tissue and function after a fracture. It includes BONY CALLUS formation and normal replacement of bone tissue.	Fracture Healings,Healing, Fracture,Healings, Fracture
D017208	Rats, Wistar	A strain of albino rat developed at the Wistar Institute that has spread widely at other institutions. This has markedly diluted the original strain.	Wistar Rat,Rat, Wistar,Wistar Rats
D050723	Fractures, Bone	Breaks in bones.	Bone Fractures,Broken Bones,Spiral Fractures,Torsion Fractures,Bone Fracture,Bone, Broken,Bones, Broken,Broken Bone,Fracture, Bone,Fracture, Spiral,Fracture, Torsion,Fractures, Spiral,Fractures, Torsion,Spiral Fracture,Torsion Fracture