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“A perceptive man, who watches living bone grow or adapt to disease, must realize that he is seeing an exquisitely controlled directionality and metering of the cell behavior responsible for the form, size, and location in space of bone. Similar control of directionality is shown by other human tissues, by all other vertebrate and most non-vertebrate animal tissues and by most botanical tissues.” (Harold Frost, 1964, preface)

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  1. New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, The City College of The City University of New York, Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY, 10031

    Stephen C. Cowin

  2. Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021

    Stephen B. Doty

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(2007). Bone Tissue Adaptation. In: Cowin, S.C., Doty, S.B. (eds) Tissue Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49985-7_12

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