Bookedited by Matthew J. Hilton, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Contents:
Overview of Skeletal Development
Overview of Skeletal Repair (Fracture Healing and Its Assessment)
Generation of Closed Transverse Fractures in Small Animals
The Murine Femoral Bone Graft Model and a Semi-Automated Histomorphometric Analysis Tool
Surgical Induction of Posttraumatic Osteoarthirits
A Mouse Model of Flexor Tendon Repair
Cartilage Explant Cultures
Renal Capsule Transplantations to Assay Skeletal Angiogenesis
Whole Mount Skeletal Staining
Tips and Techniques for Processing and Sectioning Undecalcified Murine Bone Specimens
Preparation of Thin Sections from Non-fixed and Undecalcified Hard Tissues Using Kawamoto's Film Method (2012)
Demineralized Murine Skeletal Histology
Beta-Galactosidase Staining in the Skeleton
Whole-Mount In Situ Hybridization on Murine Skeletogenic Tissues
Non-Radioactive In Situ Hybridization on Skeletal Tissue Sections
Radioactive In Situ Hybridization to Detect Gene Expression in Skeletal Tissue Sections
Proliferation Assays (BrdU and EdU) on Skeletal Tissue Sections
TUNEL Assay on Skeletal Tissue Sections to Detect Apoptosis
Analysis of Chondrogenesis Using Micromass Cultures of Limb Mesenchyme
Isolation and Culture of Murine Primary Chondrocytes
Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Assays : In Vitro and In Vivo
Isolation and Culture of Neonatal Mouse Calvarial Osteoblasts
RANKL-Based Osteoclastogenic Assays from Murine Bone Marrow Cells
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Cultures and Assays.