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. 2003 Nov 1;112(9):1429–1436. doi: 10.1172/JCI19504

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Bone density was measured in vivo at days 4 and 11 of lactation by DEXA. At day 4, the vertebral BMD of BLG-Cre/PTHrPlox/– mice (n = 6) and controls (n = 5) was 0.05294 ± 0.002043 g/cm2 and 0.05290 ± 0.002030 g/cm2. By day 11 of lactation, the BMD of the control mice had fallen to 0.04368 ± 0.001386 g/cm2, whereas the BMD of the BLG-Cre/PTHrPlox/– mice was 0.04786 ± 0.001512 g/cm2. Therefore, the BLG-Cre/PTHrPlox/– mice lost significantly less bone mass during a 7-day time period during lactation than did controls (P < 0.01).