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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2013 Nov 1;59:66–75. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2013.10.021

Table 4.

μCT analysis of distal femur trabecular bone volume and structural parameters in 3 months old wild-type (WT) and heterozygous (HT) mice of the indicated strains cross-bred with B6 ADO2 mice.

Mouse strains
(generation)
μCT parameters WT
n=5-16
HT
n=5-13
p-value
129 (N5) BV/TV (%) 7.200±0.800 14.10±1.40 0.0002*
Tb.N (1/mm) 2.317±0.180 4.009±0.244 <0.0001*
Tb.Th (mm) 0.030±0.001 0.034±0.001 0.03*
Tb.Sp (mm) 0.445±0.050 0.225±0.016 0.0005*

D2 (N5) BV/TV (%) 6.100±0.600 8.800±0.700 0.008*
Tb.N (1/mm) 1.172±0.154 2.584±0.194 0.002*
Tb.Th (mm) 0.035±0.001 0.034±0.001 0.44
Tb.Sp (mm) 0.626±0.070 0.381±0.034 0.007*

Balb/c (F1) BV/TV (%) 13.600±1.900 16.400±2.000 0.03*
Tb.N (1/mm) 3.168±0.345 4.263±0.449 0.06
Tb.Th (mm) 0.041±0.002 0.038±0.001 0.26
Tb.Sp (mm) 0.339±0.042 0.236±0.038 0.09

CD1 (F1) BV/TV (%) 5.280±1.560 8.420±3.610 0.11
Tb.N (1/mm) 1.180±0.290 2.210±0.980 0.12
Tb.Th (mm) 0.045±0.002 0.038±0.002 0.05
Tb.Sp (mm) 0.191±0.021 0.154±0.035 0.12
*

indicates statistically significant differences