Table 3.

Endocortical (Ec) bone formation indices. Values are mean ± SD.

Group	n	Cycles	Strain (με)	Weeks	Days/Week	Side	sLS/BS (%)	dLS/BS (%)	MS/BS (%)	MAR (um/day)	BFR/BS (um/day)
1	4	1200	1000	2	5	Control	70.9 ± 15.3	7.3 ± 6.1	54.5 ± 19	1.0 ± 0.3	0.5 ± 0.1
						Loaded	77.3 ± 2.5	4.8 ± 5.3	54.7 ± 20.5	1.5 ± 0.8	0.8 ± 0.3
2	6	1200	1400	2	5	Control	72.6 ± 10.4	6.6 ± 13.1	42.9 ± 11.4	0.9 ± 0.2	0.4 ± 0.2
						Loaded	66.7 ± 7.8	16.7 ± 11.1	50.0 ± 12.2	1.8 ± 0.5*	1.0 ± 0.2*
3	8	1200	1800	2	5	Control	58.5 ± 24	7.0 ± 8.1	36.3 ± 13.7	1.1 ± 0.3	0.4 ± 0.2
						Loaded	47.7 ± 15.2	13.7 ± 7.9	37.5 ± 8.3	1.3 ± 0.3	0.5 ± 0.1
4	7	1200	2200	2	5	Control	66.0 ± 15.1	6.6 ± 11.1	39.6 ± 11.9	1.1 ± 0.4	0.5 ± 0.3
						Loaded	55.7 ± 8.0	12.8 ± 6.1	40.7 ± 7.6	1.9 ± 0.4*	0.8 ± 0.2
5	8	300	1800	2	5	Control	69.3 ± 26.4	7.6 ± 9.3	42.2 ± 17.2	0.7 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.2
						Loaded	60.1 ± 36.8	25.2 ± 12.8*	55.2 ± 21.1*	1.7 ± 0.7*	1.0 ± 0.5*
6	9	60	1800	2	5	Control	71.8 ± 11.2	8.5 ± 7.7	49.3 ± 15.1	1.0 ± 0.3	0.5 ± 0.2
						Loaded	65.6 ± 36.6	27.5 ± 11.5*	60.3 ± 14.9	1.4 ± 0.3	0.8 ± 0.4
7	9	60	1800	1	5	Control	41.2 ± 11.4	6.6 ± 10.1	27.2 ± 7.5	1.0 ± 0.3	0.3 ± 0.2
						Loaded	44.2 ± 8.4	26.6 ± 13.8*	48.7 ± 14.6*	1.5 ± 0.3*	0.7 ± 0.3*
8	9	60	1800	2	3	Control	50.9 ± 19.9	20.4 ± 24.2	45.8 ± 18.8	1.0 ± 0.5	0.5 ± 0.3
						Loaded	48.2 ± 17.5	33.2 ± 24.1*	57.3 ± 18	1.3 ± 0.3	0.8 ± 0.4*

NB: There was zero incidence of endocortical woven bone.

^*Loaded different from Control, p < 0.05