Lumbar Vertebral Body Bone Microstructural Scaling in Small to Medium-Sized Strepsirhines

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-226

  Fajardo, Roberto J ^a   Desilva, Jeremy M ^b   Manoharan, Rajaram K ^c   Schmitz, James E ^a   Maclatchy, Laura M ^d   Bouxsein, Mary L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cortical bone; Lumbar vertebra; MicroCT; Strepsirhine; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EULEMUR MACACO; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROCEBUS RUFUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPSIRHINI; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873053995     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22632     Document Type: Article

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