Table 1.
Trabecular properties of right (non-loaded) and left (loaded) tibiae (n=20 per group). RM 3-way ANOVA test with temperature (temp), loading (load), and treatment (treat) main effects.
| Standard | Thermoneutral | P-value | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-loaded | Loaded | Non-loaded | Loaded | Temperature | Loading | Treatment | Temperature * Loading | Temperature * Treatment | Loading * Treatment | Temperature * Loading * Treatment | |||||
| Control | RAL | Control | RAL | Control | RAL | Control | RAL | ||||||||
| 12 ± 2.1 | 16.2 ± 2.3 | 16.4 ± 3.4 | 20.3 ± 3.2 | 12.3 ± 2 | 15.5 ± 2.1 | 17.7 ± 1.9 | 20.8 ± 2.6 | 0.5026 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0074 | 0.4264 | 0.6676 | 0.9690 | |
| Tb.Th (μm) | 6.14 ± 0.21 | 6.73 ± 0.26 | 7.68 ± 0.71 | 7.91 ± 0.42 | 6.14 ± 0.19 | 6.61 ± 0.2 | 7.39 ± 0.31 | 7.82 ± 0.3 | 0.0297 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.2884 | 0.7485 | 0.0937 | 0.1595 |
| Tb.Sp (μm) | 23.66 ± 1.98 | 22.68 ± 1.51 | 23.1 ± 2.85 | 21.55 ± 1.65 | 23.58 ± 1.67 | 22.23 ± 1.68 | 21.52 ± 1.7 | 21.27 ± 1.93 | 0.1352 | <0.0001 | 0.0107 | 0.0465 | 0.5541 | 0.4041 | 0.0129 |
| Tb.N (1/μm) | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.03 ± 0 | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.02 ± 0 | 0.03 ± 0 | 0.2550 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0003 | 0.4093 | 0.3230 | 0.3968 |
| TMD (g/cm3) | 0.74 ± 0.01 | 0.76 ± 0.02 | 0.78 ± 0.03 | 0.78 ± 0.02 | 0.75 ± 0.02 | 0.76 ± 0.02 | 0.76 ± 0.02 | 0.78 ± 0.02 | 0.8218 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0615 | 0.8950 | 0.1820 | 0.0083 |