Karlberg J, Low L, Yeung C Y
Department of Pediatrics, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong.
Acta Paediatr. 1994 Jul;83(7):777-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13138.x.
Recent publications have provided evidence that the short-term growth process may be regarded as pulsatile rather than constant over time. The possible influence of changes in soft tissue thickness is one reason why it is not possible to draw any final conclusion about the existence or not of such a pulsatile short-term growth pattern. An answer can probably not be reached until a method has been developed that measures longitudinal bone growth without any soft tissue involvement, especially since such a method has recently been used in the rabbit showing that the day-to-day growth rate was linear or continuous.
近期的出版物提供了证据，表明短期生长过程可能被视为随时间呈脉冲式而非恒定的。软组织厚度变化的可能影响是无法就这种脉冲式短期生长模式是否存在得出任何最终结论的原因之一。在开发出一种不涉及任何软组织就能测量纵向骨生长的方法之前，可能无法得到答案，特别是因为最近在兔子身上使用了这样一种方法，结果显示每日生长速率是线性的或连续的。
