“…Laminar oscillatory uid ow was applied to OCY454 cells using a parallel plate system, which comprised of a syringe pump (NE-1600, New Era Pump Systems, Farmingdale, NY, USA), parallel plate chambers and individual media reservoirs connected through gas-permeable silicone tubing (Cole-Parmer, Vernon Hills, IL, USA) [47]. The OFF loading regime subjected the OCY454 cells to a shear stress of 1 Pa at 0.5 Hz for 1 h, which is within the range of shear stresses experiences by osteocytes in vivo [69,[71][72][73]. Before and after oscillatory uid ow, slides were rinsed with PBS (x3) to remove residual media, to ensure that conditioned media collected did not contain 17β-estradiol.…”