MOL-022160 1 Ultrasound stimulates cyclooxygenase-2 expression and increases bone formation through integrin, FAK, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Akt pathway in osteoblasts CHIH-HSIN TANG, RONG-SEN YANG 1 , TSANG-HAI HUANG 2 , DAH-YUU LU, WOEI-JER CHUANG 3 , TUR-FU HUANG and WEN-MEI FU* Departments of Pharmacology and Orthopaedics 1 , College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Office of Physical Education, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. 3 Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Molecular Pharmacology Fast Forward. Published on March 15, 2006 as doi:10.1124/mol.105.022160 Copyright 2006 by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. This article has not been copyedited and formatted. The final version may differ from this version. Molecular Pharmacology Fast Forward. Published on March 15, 2006 as DOI: 10.1124/mol.105.022160 at ASPET Journals on February 22, 2022 molpharm.aspetjournals.org Downloaded from