BioMed Research International
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 863421, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/863421
Review Article
Mechanotransduction in Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration: Effects of Fluid Flow, Loading, and Cellular-Molecular Pathways
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5281, USA
Received 2 May 2014; Accepted 13 June 2014; Published 18 August 2014
Academic Editor: Guoxian Pei
Copyright © 2014 Yi-Xian Qin and Minyi Hu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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