Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact. 2010 Mar;10(1):12–24.

Table 1.

Distal femur metaphysis histomorphometry.

Control HLS 1 Hz 20 Hz 50 Hz 100 Hz
BV/TV - Histo (%) 41.2±7.7 23.3±4.3** 24.0±8.1** 29.6±3.9* 32.1±4.3*# 29.1±3.5*
MS/BS (%) 9.15±5.5 2.11±1.0** 1.38±1.3** 2.37±1.7** 3.94±2.8** 2.21±1.7**
MAR (μm/day) 1.77±0.5 0.36±0.3** 0.38±0.5** 0.48±0.3** 0.65±0.4* 0.57±0.4**
BFR/BS (μm3/μm2/yr) 46.9±21 3.67±5.1** 3.15±2.6** 6.63±7.8** 10.3±8.5* 6.56±7.1*

Values are mean±SE. BV/TV, bone volume/tissue volume; MS/BS, mineralized surface/bone surface; MAR, mineral apposition rate; BFR/BS, bone formation rate/bone surface.

*

p<0.01 vs. age-matched;

**

p<0.001 vs. age-matched;

#

p=0.07 vs. HLS. (Courtesy of BONE 2008;43:1093–100).