Effects of Osteocyte Shape on Fluid Flow and Fluid Shear Stress of the Loaded Bone.

ABSTRACT: This study was conducted to better understand the specific behavior of the intraosseous fluid flow. We calculated the number and distribution of bone canaliculi around the osteocytes based on the varying shapes of osteocytes. We then used these calculated parameters and other bone microstructure data to estimate the anisotropy permeability of the lacunar-canalicular network. Poroelastic finite element models of the osteon were established, and the influence of the osteocyte shape on the fluid flow properties of osteons under an axial displacement load was analyzed. Two types of boundary conditions (BC) that might occur in physiological environments were considered on the cement line of the osteon. BC1 allows free fluid passage from the outer elastic restraint boundary, and BC2 is impermeab

SUBMITTER: Yang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9170394 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature