Abstract

LANDINEZ PARRA, Nancy; GARZON-ALVARADO, Diego A  and  NARVAEZ TOVAR, Carlos Alberto. An introduction to computation mechanobiology. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2011, vol.30, n.3, pp. 368-389. ISSN 0864-0300.

The mechanobiology study the behavior of cells, tissues and organs under the effects of the biochemistry, the cellular biology and the external stimuli, as mechanic loads. This involve the development of forms and the carrying out of experiments to know the complex processes presenting in the genesis and the maintenance or organs and tissues. Through this discipline it has been possible to isolate different effects as in the case of genetics, the autocrine and paracrine molecular factors and the mechanic loads on tissues and organs. The objective of present paper is to show the main developments and contributions of computation mechanobiology in the medical knowledge.

Keywords : Mechanobiology; biology; mechanics; computation; engineering; biomedical sciences.

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