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. 2017 Jan 28;43(1):139–148. doi: 10.1007/s10867-016-9439-y

Table 1.

Tibial bone structural dimensions

Age (weeks) Weeks post-surgery Treatment No. of animals Tibial length (mm) Cortical area (mm2) Cavity area (mm2)
10 2 SHAM 8 16.59 ± 0.11a 0.47 ± 0.01 a,b 0.30 ± 0.02
OVX 4 16.52 ± 0.18 a 0.31 ± 0.06 a,b 0.31 ± 0.06
12 4 SHAM 16 16.98 ± 0.11 0.55 ± 0.02 0.29 ± 0.01
OVX 12 17.24 ± 0.12 0.59 ± 0.02 0.33 ± 0.02
16 8 SHAM 10 17.06 ± 0.13 0.54 ± 0.01 0.30 ± 0.02
OVX 7 17.23 ± 0.19 0.56 ± 0.01 0.32 ± 0.03

Two-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni post hoc test, α = 0.05

aBoth treatments at 2 weeks post-surgery are different (p = 0.001) than 4 and 8 weeks post-surgery

bTreatments are different (p = 0.001) at 2 weeks post-surgery