A non-destructive technique for 3-D microstructural phenotypic characterisation of bones in genetically altered mice: Preliminary data in growth hormone transgenic animals and normal controls

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-248

  Graichen, Heiko ^a   Lochmüller, Eva Maria ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a   Langkabel, Bernd ^b   Stammberger, Tobias ^c   Haubner, Michael ^c   Renner Müller, Ingrid ^a   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^c   Eckstein, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Stratec Medizintechnik   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Bone; Femur; Microcomputed tomography; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METAPHYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR BONE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; CATTLE; FEMALE; FEMUR; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033002343     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050225     Document Type: Article

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