Male mice housed in groups engage in frequent fighting and show a lower response to additional bone loading than females or individually housed males that do not fight

Bone

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-117

  Meakin, Lee B ^a   Sugiyama, Toshihiro ^a,b   Galea, Gabriel L ^a   Browne, William J ^a   Lanyon, Lance E ^a   Price, Joanna S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial loading; Bone adaptation; Housing; Mechanical strain; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; IN VIVO STUDY; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OSTEOGENESIS; TIBIA; WEIGHT-BEARING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84874395901     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2013.01.029     Document Type: Article

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