Subject Area:	Medicine and Dentistry
More specific subject area:	Establishment of animal models of specific diseases
Method name:	Steroid-induced rabbit osteonecrosis model
Name and reference of original method:	L. Qin, G. Zhang, H. Sheng, K.W. Yeung, H.Y. Yeung, C.W. Chan, W.H. Cheung, J. Griffith, K.H. Chiu, K.S. Leung, Multiple bioimaging modalities in evaluation of an experimental osteonecrosis induced by a combination of lipopolysaccharide and methylprednisolone, Bone 39(4) (2006) 863−871; G. Motomura, T. Yamamoto, T. Irisa, K. Miyanishi, K. Nishida, Y. Iwamoto, Dose effects of corticosteroids on the development of osteonecrosis in rabbits, J. Rheumatol. 35(12) (2008) 2395−2399.
Resource availability:	Department of Orthopedics, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University; Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences