Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2014 Oct 1;12:284. doi: 10.1186/s12967-014-0284-0

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© Xu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

PMC Copyright notice

Effect of simvastatin on maxilla by micro-CT analysis of bone volumetric parameters. (A) Longitudinal-sectional micro-CT images of the first molar (M1) in the maxilla. (B–E) Analysis of micro-CT volumetric parameters: bone volume/tissue volume (BV/TV), trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), trabecular separation (Tb.Sp), and trabecular number (Th.N). Values are expressed as the mean ± the standard deviation (N = 12; * indicates p < 0.05, ** indicates p < 0.01).