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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2011 Mar 10;19(7):911–918. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2011.03.002

Table 2.

Regional distribution of oxygen consumption rate (n=4): volume based Vmax (significantly region-dependent, p<0.02), cell based Vmax (significantly region-dependent, p<0.005), and kinetic constant Km (not significantly region-dependent, p=0.965).

Volume based Vmax (μmol/mL tissue/hr) Cell based Vmax (nmol/106 cells/hr) Km (μmol/L)
Anterior 0.95(0.28–1.62) 18.3(5.4–31.2) 17.2(5.6–28.8)
Intermediate 1.47(0.19–2.75) 31.6(0.6–62.6) 17.3(4.6–30.0)
Lateral 1.67(0.42–2.92) 35.6(8.4–62.8)* 20.9(4.4–37.4)
Medial 2.16(0.38–3.94)* 36.7(6.5–66.9)* 23.6(13.2–34.0)
Posterior 0.98(0.45–1.51) 21.5(9.9–33.1) 17.8(10.4–25.2)

The symbol (*) indicates significance compared to anterior/posterior bands for the post hoc test (p<0.05).