Comparison of rat mandible bone characteristics in F344 substrains, F344/Du and F344/N

Experimental Animals

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 415-418

  Tanaka, Shin ^a   Kuwahara, Sachi ^a,b   Nishijima, Kazutoshi ^a   Ohno, Tamio ^c   Nagaya, Masahiro ^a   Nakamura, Yasunori ^d   Sumi, Yasunori ^d   Miyaishi, Osamu ^e   Aoyama, Hiroaki ^f   Goto, Nobuo ^g  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e CHUBU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

^g Japanese Society for Laboratory Animal Resources   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density: BMD; Bone mineral ratio: BMR; Mandible; Substrain difference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; JAPAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMETRY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; MALE; MANDIBLE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750972601     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: 13411357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.55.415     Document Type: Article

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