Biological Mechanisms for Allen's Rule: DNA Methylation as Mediator of the Association Between In Utero Exposure to Environmental Heat and Tibial Growth in Childhood
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DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.70086
Abstract: Understanding human phenotypic plasticity in response to social, ecosystem, and climate interactions can be an important tool for designing social and public health strategies that increase climate change resilience. Sensitivity of the tibia to environmental… read more here.
Keywords: allen rule; dna methylation; environmental heat; tibial growth ... See more keywords
High altitude hypoxia as a factor that promotes tibial growth plate development in broiler chickens
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173698
Abstract: Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is one of the most common problems in the poultry industry and leads to lameness by affecting the proximal growth plate of the tibia. However, due to the unique environmental and geographical… read more here.
Keywords: growth plate; tibial growth; blood; high altitude ... See more keywords
Intermittent mechanical loading on mouse tibia accelerates longitudinal bone growth by inducing PTHrP expression in the female tibial growth plate
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DOI: 10.14814/phy2.16168
Abstract: It is not clear as to whether weight bearing and ambulation may affect bone growth. Our goal was to study the role of mechanical loading (one of the components of ambulation) on endochondral ossification and… read more here.
Keywords: bone growth; tibial growth; mechanical loading; bone ... See more keywords