| Autor: |
Lochmüller EM; I. Frauenklinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany., Weusten A, Wolf E, Cindik E, Renner-Müller I, Eikmeier T, Eckstein F |
| Jazyk: |
němčina |
| Zdroj: |
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft [Ann Anat] 1999 Mar; Vol. 181 (2), pp. 191-8. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/s0940-9602(99)80007-7 |
| Abstrakt: |
The aim of the present study was the non-invasive, sex-specific measurement of bone mass in bovine growth hormone (bGH) transgenic mice and normal controls with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The transgenic mouse constitutes a suitable animal model to study the influence of growth hormone on the skeletal system. We analysed 28 animals, aged 12 weeks (14 transgenic, 14 controls, 7 male and 7 female, respectively), using a peripheral DXA scanner that had been adapted to the measurement of small animals. At a measurement time of 20 min, the precision (RMS average CV%) was 4.4% for bone mass (BMC), 2.5% for areal bone density (BMD), 0.86% for total body weight and 4.5% for the percentage BMC (relative to body weight). While the absolute bone mass was not significantly different between male and female animals, we found a higher percentage of the BMC relative to the total bone mass in females (+21% in controls, +31% in transgenics; p < 0.01). The absolute bone mass was higher in the transgenic animals (+71% in females and +62% in males; p < 0.01), but relative to the body weight the transgenic females yielded similar and the transgenic males lower values (-7.2%; p < 0.05). Using DXA it is possible to non-invasively determine the mass of mineralised tissue in the mouse with relatively high precision and to effectively discriminate between different groups. Although a strong influence of growth hormone on the absolute bone mass is observed, the results show that this increase is not higher than that of the total body mass. |
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