Table 4. The effect of maternal treatment with HMB on trabecular bone morphology of the femur obtained from newborn piglets.

Item	Female		Male		SEM	Influence of
	Control	HMB	Control	HMB		treatment	sex	Interaction of treatment*sex
Femur epiphysis
BV/T, %	22.2b	39.6d	16.2a	32.0c	1.5	<0.001	<0.001	0.379
TbTh mean, μm	51.3b	69.7c	41.1a	69.4c	2.1	<0.001	0.001	0.002
TbTs mean, μm	173.2b	110.0a	249.0c	150.3ab	10.1	<0.001	<0.001	0.165
Tb.N/mm of bone	43.1a	56.9b	39.5a	46.7a	1.4	<0.001	0.001	0.104
Femur metaphysis
BV/TV, %	21.2a	38.7b	23.3a	25.7a	1.3	<0.001	0.002	<0.001
TbTh mean, μm	57.1a	85.6b	51.9a	59.9a	3.2	<0.001	0.003	0.047
TbTs mean, μm	212.1c	154.0a	194.2bc	165.7ab	6.1	<0.001	0.759	0.146
Tb.N/mm of bone	37.5a	46.7b	46.1ab	43.9ab	1.3	0.156	0.234	0.021

^{a, b, c, d}—mean values in rows with different letters differ significantly at P<0.05; SEM—standard error of the means.