Table 3.

Femoral biomechanical properties as determined by three-point bending following 21 days of Mars-analog loading in female mice

	Baseline	Age	Jacket	Mars
n	8	19	7–8	7–9
Stiffness, N/mm	125.85 ± 12.10	136.05 ± 10.13‡	113.76 ± 19.21§	114.70 ± 13.86*
Yield moment, N·mm	15.69 ± 5.56	17.33 ± 4.50	11.11 ± 4.39§	13.05 ± 1.21*
Ultimate moment, N·mm	26.10 ± 3.59	29.10 ± 3.90	22.94 ± 5.89§	21.20 ± 3.38*
Postyield bending work, N·mm	5.45 ± 2.16	5.51 ± 1.71	5.81 ± 1.86	5.67 ± 2.22
Estimated Young's modulus, N/mm2	5,611.95 ± 598.13	5,584.61 ± 580.81	4,641.47 ± 580.42§	5,480.99 ± 702.87†

Values are means ± SD; n, no. of mice.

^*Mars significantly different than Age,

^†Mars significantly different than Jacket,

^‡Age significantly different than Baseline, and

^§Jacket significantly different than Age: P < 0.05.