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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2016 Apr 23;88:85–91. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2016.04.021

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Average profiles from standard cortical site in left tibiae. All profiles oriented with the anterior direction up and the medial direction to the right. A) Removing endogenous Cx43 from osteocytes results in cortical expansion in the posterior direction. B) Expressing the truncated form of Cx43 alongside endogenous Cx43 results in a thicker cortical shell due to an endocortical contraction. C) This endocortical contraction is maintained when truncated Cx43 is the only Cx43 expressed in osteocytes. D) The presence of the truncated form of Cx43 prevents the marked posterior periosteal expansion noted in panel A.