Mechanical Loading of Bones and Joints

1 Osteoporosis Basic and Clinical Research.- The Biomechanical “Face” of Osteoporosis: Emerging Views with Insights from the Utah Paradigm.- The Present State and Future Prospects for Bone Mass Measurement.- Anisotropic Behavior in Viscoelasticity and Fracture Mechanics of Compact Bone.- Development and Differentiation of Macrophages, Osteoclasts, and Dendritic Cells.- Histomorphometric and Node-Strut Analysis of Effects of Exercise or Incadronate Disodium on hPTH (1–34)-Induced Bone Mass in Ovariectomized Rats.- Human Parathyroid Hormone (1–34) Increases Cortical Bone Mass by Activating Bone Modeling in the Formation Mode in Ovariectomized Rats.- Osteoporotic Vertebral Pseudarthrosis: Another Instability of the Spine.- 2 Mechanical Loading and Its Regulation in Bone.- The Mechanics of Bone Adaptation.- Biomechanics of Articular Joints: Review of a Decade of Progress of the Niigata Biomechanics Group.- Mechanical Unloading and Bone Marrow Cells.- Changes in Bone Tissue of Tail-Suspended Rats.- Bending Load and Bone Formation Response.- Adaptive Bone Remodeling Under Mechanical Stimuli.- Bone Microdamage and Its Repair: Pathophysiology of Bone Fatigue.- 3 Joint Destruction and Its Regulation in Rheumatoid Arthritis.- The Immune System Under the Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System.- Effects of Stem Loosening on Periprosthetic Bone Remodeling After Cementless Hip Replacement.- Abnormalities in Bone Marrow of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Extrathymic Differentiation of Resident T Cells in the Joint and Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Relationship Between HLA-DRB1-DQB1 Haplotypes and the Effect of Chicken Cartilage Soup Containing Type II Collagen on Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Notes on the Disease Mechanism and Genetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Apoptosis Is a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for RA: Investigations Using an Experimental Arthritis Animal Model.- 4 Response of Spinal Cord and Cauda Equina to Dynamic Stress.- Evaluation of Dynamic Stress of the Cervical Spinal Cord Using a High-Resolution Positron Emission Tomography.- Dynamics of Cauda Equina Compression in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.- Neurophysiological Changes of the Nerve Root Induced by Mechanical Compression.- Compound Muscle Action Potentials Under Dynamic Stress in Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis.- 5 Human Iliac CFU-F Properties and Potential Uses.- Immobilization Osteopenia—Bone Loss After Arthroplastic Surgery.- Characterization of Osteoblast Progenitor Cells in Human Iliac Bone Marrow.- Trabecular Bone Turnover and Bone Marrow Capacity for Bone Cells in Immobilization-Related Bone Loss.- Cbfa1 Is a Master Gene for Osteoblast Differentiation.- Which Activates Mechanotransduction in Bone—Extracellular Fluid Flow or Mechanical Strain?.- Bone Resorption Is Inhibited by an Osteocyte-Derived Protein.- Keyword Index.