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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Metab. 2017 Dec 12;36(6):661–667. doi: 10.1007/s00774-017-0887-7

Table 2.

Duodenal villous and crypt morphometry

WT (n = 7) KO (n = 10)
Villus
 Villus height (µm)   445.9 ± 14.48 310.1 ± 19.3*
 Villus diameter (µm)  77.6 ± 2.5 93.4 ± 6.6*
 Villus perimeter (mm) 1.14.0 ± 0.03  0.88 ± 0.49*
 Total perimeter (mm)   3.54 ± 0.13  2.65 ± 0.14*
Crypt
 Crypt diameter (µm) 41.2 ± 2.1 42.0 ± 1.5
 Area of the crypt (mm2) 12.05 ± 1.15 11.95 ± 078
 Area of cells (mm2) 10.85 ± 1.04 10.17 ± 0.73
 Height of the crypts cells (µm) 11.9 ± 0.6 11.6 ± 0.6

The “total perimeter” refers of the whole duodenal villus perimeter in each slide. Mean ± SEM (*significant differences versus WT mice, Student’s t test, p < 0.05)