. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 18.

Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2008 Jul 17;43(5):921–930. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.06.020

Table 2.

Morphometry of distal EGP from fetal femur

	E16.5		E18.5
	EUT	HYPO	EUT	HYPO
PZ
Area (mm²)	124.1±1.7	107.9±12.4	175.7±12.3	147.0±9.5^*
Length (mm)	286.0±50.2	252.3±54.0	352.1±19.8	315.3±7.8^*
¹PC/column	+//0	+//0	10.6±1.1	7.8±0.8^*
HZ
Area (mm²)	78.5±8.3	72.3±3.4	70.1±11.9	53.7±5.9^*
Length (mm)	174.5±4.8	167.9±7.7	141.8±5.4	136.2±5.2
¹HC	104.9±2.6	91.5±5.4^*	99.6±7.4	84.8±6.8^*

Measurements of distal EGP from E16.5 and E18.5 fetal femur. EUT: euthyroid; HYPO: hypothyroid; PZ: proliferative zone; HZ: hypertrophic zone; ¹PC: number of proliferative chondrocytes; ¹HC: number of hypertrophic chondrocytes. +//0: absence of proliferative columns. The results are expressed as mean±SEM, n=3–5.

p<0.05 by Student t-test.