re strain gage applications in vivo in article apr organpipe uug arizona edu ame bigdog engr arizona edu terrance j dishongh writes greeting i am starting work on a project where i am trying to make strain gages bond to bone in vivo or a period of several months i am currently using hydroxyapaptite back gages and i have tried m bonding the gages to the bone apart from those two application methods there doesn t seem to be much else in the literature i have only an engineering background not medical or biological i would be interest in any ideas about how to stimulte bone growth on the surface of cortical bone thanks for oyur help in advance terrance j dishongh ame bigdog engr arizona edu it sounds as though you might want to try a product such as super glue the active ingredient is cynoacrylate the same compound used to reconstruct bones i have successfully used superglue for a number of procedures on many different species of animal if you are simply trying to adhear something to bone for several months this would be ideal it bonds almost immediatly is resistant to infection and is non irritating to surrounding tissue phil bowman manager lab animal resources university of montana missoula mt larpjb selway umt edu wg phil bowman manager laboratory animal resources
