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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Densitom. 2009 Jan-Mar;12(1):89–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jocd.2008.10.008

Table 1.

Morphometric measurements and PIXImus body composition phenotypes in B6 mice, by gender 2 and season (mean value +/− SE).

Sex Female Male
Season Winter Summer Winter Summer
N 23 20 18 21
Body weight (g) 21.08 +/− 0.44 21.84 +/− 0.47 29.17 +/− 0.55a 27.17 +/− 0.51
Femur length (mm) 15.64 +/− 0.05 15.60 +/− 0.05 16.00 +/− 0.06 15.97 +/− 0.06
aBMD (g/cm2) 0.0484 +/− 0.0003 0.0488 +/− 0.0003 0.0519 +/− 0.0005 0.0511 +/− 0.0005
BMC (g) 0.463 +/− 0.005 0.458 +/− 0.006 0.531 +/− 0.011 0.521 +/− 0.010
% fat 19.70 +/− 0.60 20.15 +/− 0.64 19.44 +/− 0.95 18.31 +/− 0.88
a

p<0.05