The present in vitro study was motivated by scientific literature reports that show enhanced healing of bone fractures in experimental animals in response to electrical stimulation. The underlying cellular- and molecular level mechanisms responsible for new bone formation, however, were not studied at that time. Since then, advances in cell biology, biochemistry and biomedical engineering provided knowledge, models, and instrumentation to investigate these unanswered questions.
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