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2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Medicine
Adjustable Stiffness, External Fixator for the Rat Femur Osteotomy and Segmental Bone Defect Models
Vaida Glatt 1, Romano Matthys 2
1Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 2RISystem AG
One constraint of preclinical research in the field of bone repair is the lack of experimental control over the local mechanical environment within a healing bone lesion. We report the design and use of an external fixator for bone repair with the ability to change fixator stiffness in vivo.
Medicine
An Intramedullary Locking Nail for Standardized Fixation of Femur Osteotomies to Analyze Normal and Defective Bone Healing in Mice
Tina Histing 1, Michael D. Menger 2, Tim Pohlemann 1, Romano Matthys 3, Tobias Fritz 1, Patric Garcia 1, Moritz Klein 1
1Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Saarland University, 2Institute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, 3RISystem AG
This protocol describes an osteosynthesis technique using an intramedullary locking nail for standardized fixation of femur osteotomies, which can be used to analyze normal and defective bone healing in mice.
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