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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Calcif Tissue Int. 2012 Aug 18;92(2):99–105. doi: 10.1007/s00223-012-9633-2

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Skeletal phenotype of VDR null mice at 35 days of age. Radiographs of the tibia and fibula of Wildtype (A) and VDR null mice (B) are shown. Arrow heads point to the cortical bone, which is undermineralized, thus thinner in the VDR null mouse. Arrow points to the expanded, radiolucent growth plate, classic for rickets. Von kossa staining demonstrates a decrease in mineral in the cortical and trabecular bone of the VDR null mouse (D), relative to its wildtype littermate, as well as expansion of the growth plate. Modified from [2]. Copyright 1997, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.