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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-28
pubmed:abstractText
Recent studies show that minor and major centroidal axes (CA) of long bone cross sections provide valuable predictions of prevailing loading patterns in age and treatment matched cohorts of animals. Furthermore, using CA, we recently showed that the degree of mineralization and area of woven bone laid down in the first two weeks after creation of a critical sized bone defect relate inversely and correlate significantly to loading patterns. Here, we aim to determine how closely independent measures of the spatial distribution of bone apposition determined using the major and minor CA as reference points correlate to those using anatomically defined axes as reference points. In histological sections from the previous study, we found no statistically significant difference between the anatomical and centroidal axes with respect to the centroid location or axis rotation, but there is a significant albeit small difference in the average distance between centroids. Outcome measures calculated in areas of bone defined by 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, or 90° sectors when using the CA differ less than 5% from those calculated using anatomical axes as reference points. Hence, the major and minor CA provide objective reference points for comparison of mechanobiological outcome measures between animals in matched cohorts. Calculation of major and minor CA is automated, which reduces the potential for observer bias. A major advantage of using the major and minor CA as reference points is that it allows for direct relation of outcome measures to loading patterns in age and treatment matched cohorts, ultimately providing a tool to test mechanobiological hypotheses on histological cross sections of bone.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1873-2380
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
44
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1205-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Major and minor centroidal axes serve as objective, automatable reference points to test mechanobiological hypotheses using histomorphometry.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural