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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2014 May 15;65:83–91. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2014.05.006

Table 3.

Structural morphology of varying age trabecular bone subjected to two tibial compression loading magnitudes (n=13-15)

Outcomes Time
[weeks]		 −2200 με −3000 με
5 month 12 month 22 month 5 month 12 month 22 month
Control Loaded Control Loaded Control Loaded Control Loaded Control Loaded Control Loaded
BV/TV [mm3/mm3] 0 week 0.11 ± 0.03 0.12 ± 0.03 0.06 ± 0.02 0.05 ± 0.03 0.07 ± 0.05 0.10 ± 0.06 0.08 ± 0.02 0.08 ± 0.02 0.03 ± 0.02 0.03 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.05 0.04 ± 0.02
2 weeks 0.09 ± 0.04* 0.12 ± 0.04 0.06 ± 0.03 0.06 ± 0.03 0.07 ± 0.04 0.09 ± 0.06 0.07 ± 0.02* 0.10 ± 0.03* 0.03 ± 0.02 0.03 ± 0.02 0.04 ± 0.02 0.05 ± 0.02
Tb.Th [μm] 0 week 56 ± 5 55 ± 5 67 ± 10 65 ± 5 73 ± 10 68 ± 8 52 ± 4 52 ± 3 61 ± 10 56 ± 8 66 ± 15 66 ± 14
2 weeks 53 ± 3* 61 ± 3* 61 ± 8* 61 ± 11 73 ± 9 69 ± 8 53 ± 4 68 ± 7* 57 ± 10 65 ± 10* 67 ± 11 70 ± 17
Tb.N [1/mm] 0 week 3.9 ± 0.4 4.0 ± 0.4 2.9 ± 0.2 2.8 ± 0.4 3.5 ± 1.0 4.0 ± 1.1 3.7 ± 0.5 3.9 ± 0.4 2.9 ± 0.4 2.8 ± 0.3 3.3 ± 0.8 3.7 ± 0.7
2 weeks 3.8 ± 0.5 4.0 ± 0.4 2.9 ± 0.3 2.8 ± 0.3 4.0 ± 1.5 4.2 ± 1.6 3.6 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.6 2.8 ± 0.4 2.9 ± 0.3 3.2 ± 0.7 3.6 ± 1.2
vBMD [mg HA/cm3] 0 week 127 ± 26 133 ± 19 79 ± 26 69 ± 26 89 ± 34 99 ± 43 108 ± 17 106 ± 17 62 ± 17 53 ± 23 65 ± 42 54 ± 22
2 weeks 115 ± 27* 130 ± 26 81 ± 26 75 ± 37 88 ± 32 99 ± 44 102 ± 17* 117 ± 24* 63 ± 14 61 ± 21 63 ± 22 70 ± 22*
*

p<0.05, 0 week vs. 2 weeks

Data are represented as mean±SD.