| Abstract: | The effect of a direct current on bone tissue was studied in experiments on rabbits. Passage of a current of 15–20  A through bone stimulates osteogenesis in the region of the cathode compared with the control (symmetrical bone of the same rabbit with implanted nonfunctioning electrodes), and in the case of fracture it promotes faster consolidation than in the control.Laboratory of Pathophysiology, R. R. Vreden Scientific-Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Leningrad. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, P. N. Veselkin.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 78, No. 9, pp. 100–102, September, 1974. |
