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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2010 Jul 31;43(14):2689–2694. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.06.019

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of the device used to load the mouse hindlimb. Compressive loads were applied at the footplate by an electromagnetic actuator and transmitted loads were measured with a load cell at the knee cup. Load was primarily transmitted to the tibia (in white) through the calcaneus distally and the femur proximally (in black). A single element strain gauge bonded at the mid-diaphysis on the medial surface of the tibia measured the strains induced in the tibia as a function of applied load to determine bone stiffness.