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Make No Bones about It: Long Bones Scale Isometrically

Long bones are far from being simple cylinders, so how is the relative positioning of their various features maintained during growth? A new study shows that growth is isometric and that drift from the correct position is minimized. Read the Research Article.

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Published in:PLoS Biol
Main Author: Sedwick, Caitlin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524612/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26241695
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002211
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