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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol. 2004 Feb;276(2):150. doi: 10.1002/ar.a.20002

TABLE 1.

Peak suture and bone shear strains (mean με ± SD) during mastication

IF1
Animal Compression Tension IP2 Frontal bone Parietal bone
3-month
 297 −522 ± 175 NA4 107 ± 33 136 ± 22 46 ± 10
 298 −151 ± 34 NA4 75 ± 27 52 ± 26 25 ± 11
 299 −690 ± 193 NA4 247 ± 68 100 ± 30 43 ± 19
 300 −582 ± 213 NA4 62 ± 38 87 ± 31 29 ± 12
Mean ± SD −486 ± 234 123 ± 85 94 ± 35 36 ± 11
7-month
 303 −216 ± 48 64 ± 22 466 ± 110 ND5 ND5
 321 −41 ± 7 89 ± 18 391 ± 81 79 ± 24 25 ± 6
 322 ND5 ND5 ND5 ND5 ND5
 3043 −167 ± 17 148 ± 20 22 ± 5 122 ± 33 64 ± 33
 3063 −107 ± 11 123 ± 101 181 ± 24 60 ± 17 55 ± 30
 3073 −59 ± 26 95 ± 20 88 ± 7 58 ± 13 27 ± 11
Mean ± SD −118 ± 74 104 ± 33 230 ± 192 78 ± 30 43 ± 20
1

IF, interfrontal suture;

2

IP, interparietal suture;

3

fused interparietal sutures;

4

NA, no tension;

5

ND, no data.