Mechanobiology

Mchanical stimulation influences the growth, adaptation, regeneration and engineering of cells and tissues. For example, in mechanobiology of skeletal tissues around orthopedic implants, regeneration of bone tissue is a function of shear stress transfer at the bone-implant interface. Osteoblasts are sensitive to mechanical stimulation and so it is important to study their reaction in a situation which is similar to the mechanical boundary conditions at the bone-implant interface.

In mechanobiology , this interaction between mechanical stimulations and biological process in living tissues is studied. In vivo and in vitro experiments plus computational modeling tools are used to explain the link between mechanics and biology.