Table 2.

Micro CT analysis of trabecular bone and cortical bone in tibia and whole body weight. (n = 4–5)

Bone parameters		Cre-		Cre+		P value
		Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
Trabecular bone analysis	(Tb.BV/TV)/%	0.083 ± 0.013	0.088 ± 0.023	0.112 ± 0.031	0.127 ± 0.034	0.093	0.116
	Tb.N/µm-1	1.773 ± 0.252	4.175 ± 0.473	2.406 ± 0.568	3.953 ± 0.366	0.052	0.487
	Tb.Th/µm	0.045 ± 0.002	0.044 ± 0.002	0.045 ± 0.004	0.054 ± 0.006	0.843	*0.024
	Tb.Sp/µm	0.438 ± 0.235	0.238 ± 0.030	0.389 ± 0.102	0.247 ± 0.026	0.678	0.676
Cortical bone analysis	(Ct.BV/TV)/%	0.916 ± 0.003	0.915 ± 0.006	0.915 ± 0.004	0.915 ± 0.002	0.790	0.977
	Ct.Th/µm	0.212 ± 0.002	0.211 ± 0.014	0.208 ± 0.003	0.210 ± 0.009	0.100	0.870
Body Weight	Gram	31.70 ± 2.574	28.00 ± 3.317	31.75 ± 2.111	26.26 ± 2.353	0.977	0.367

No significant differences were observed between control Cre^–, mice, compared to Sost-CreER^T2 mice/tdTomato, of the same gender using unpaired Student’s t-test *P < 0.05