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In animals which ambulate normally between loading bouts a minimum effective strain (MES) is apparent where bone formation is only observed above this threshold, referred to as the lazy or dead 30 zone; adapted from 89. This phenomenon was first reported experimentally for cortical bone using the tibial four-point bend model52 and the ulnar axial compression model125.
