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Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2006 May 30;39(4):767–772. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.04.006

Table 2.

Femoral micro-architecture in 4-month wild-type and COX-2−/− mice

	Wild type		COX-2−/−
	Female	Males	Females	Males
Metaphyseal region
BVF	0.1236 (0.0052)^a	0.3060 (0.0179)^b	0.1265 (0.0114)^a	0.258 (0.0269)
Tb.N.	4.4281 (0.1966)^a	5.9363 (0.1642)	4.4331 (0.2524)^a	5.786 (0.1540)
Tb.Th	0.0587 (0.0015)^a	0.0751 (0.0025)	0.0594 (0.0026)^a	0.0667 (0.0043)
Tb.Sp.	0.2285 (0.0129)^a	0.1600 (0.0060)	0.2313 (0.0116)^a	0.1671 (0.0058)
Conn.	43.422 (2.254)^a	148.45 (8.00)	49.103 (10.988)^a	122.57 (11.300)
Epiphyseal region
BVF	0.284 (0.005)^a	0.417 (0.017)	0.299 (0.016)^a	0.412 (0.019)
Tb.N.	11.472 (0.266)^a	11.34 (0.15)	11.718 (0.184)	11.258 (0.107)
Tb.Th	0.063 (0.001)^a	0.070 (0.002)	0.061 (0.002)^a	0.067 (0.002)
Tb.Sp	0.113 (0.001)^a	0.106 (0.002)	0.111 (0.003)^a	0.104 (0.002)
Conn.	105.322 (7.432)^a	144.64 (4.622)^b	139.118 (10.505)^a	173.730 (6.800)

Data are presented as mean (SEM).

^a

Significance between sex (P < 0.01).

^b

Significance between male wild type and COX-2−/− (P < 0.05).