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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Res. 2013 Jun;28(6):1434–1445. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.1876

Table 2.

Histomorphometric analysis of bone phenotype when C57BL/6 and Pyk2−/− recipient mice are reconstituted with C57BL/6 or GATA-1 cells.

Recipient Mice Donor Cells No. of Mice BV/TV N.Ob/T.Ar N.Oc/T.Ar N.Ob/BS Oc.S/BS
C57BL/6 C57BL/6 12 4.4 ± 0.5 42 ± 4 28 ± 3 1.1 ± 0.5 9.9 ± 0.8
C57BL/6 GATA-1 9 6.8 ± 0.9* 66 ± 6* 53 ± 10* 0.8 ± 0.2 13.1 ± 0.9*
Pyk2−/− C57BL/6 11 6.9 ± 1.2 72 ± 12 41 ± 5 0.9 ± 0.2 11.0 ± 2.3
Pyk2−/− GATA-1 11 6.0 ± 0.8 71 ± 12 49 ± 8 0.7 ± 0.1 11.3 ± 1.8

BV/TV, bone volume/tissue volume; N.Ob/T.Ar, osteoblast number/tissue area; N.Oc/T.Ar, osteoclast number/tissue area; N.Ob/BS, osteoblast number/bone surface; Oc.S/BS, osteoclast surface/bone surface.

Results are presented as mean ± SEM;

*

p < 0.05 compared with like recipient with C57BL/6 donor cells.