Abstract: | Exposure to a pulsed electric current during reparative regeneration of bone in rabbits resulted in stimulation of osteogenesis so that it predominated over fibro- and chondrogenesis to a greater degree than inthe control. The degree of mineralization of the microstructures was indistinguishable from the control.Laboratory of Biophysics, N. N. Priorov Central Scientific-Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ministry of Health of the USSR, Moscow. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR M. V. Volkov.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 589–591, May, 1977. |