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    Deterioration of trabecular bone microarchitecture in the lumbar vertebrae in growing male mice following sciatic neurectomy
    ( 2014)
    Ko, C.Y.
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    Jung, Y.J.
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    Seo, D.H.
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    Lee, S.D.
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    Kim, H.S.
    Sciatic nerve injury (SNI) can lead to significant bone loss in the lower extremities. However, the effects of SNI on the lumbar vertebrae are controversial. The present study aimed to evaluate the longitudinal effects of SNI on the lumbar vertebrae. Twenty-four 12-week-old male C57BL/6 mice (24.55 +/- 0.17 g) were randomly assigned to 3 groups (8 mice each) and underwent unilateral sciatic neurectomy (USN group), bilateral sciatic neurectomy (BSN group), or no surgery (CON group). The third (L3) and fourth (L4) lumbar vertebrae were scanned by in-vivo micro-computed tomography (Anot signCT) preoperatively and at 14 and 28 days postoperatively. Using mu CT images, structural parameters and bone mineralization density distribution of the trabecular bone were analyzed among the 3 groups. In the BSN group, structural and material properties of L3 and L4 worsened after 14 days. Deterioration in the structural properties of L3 was observed at 28 days in the USN group, whereas no changes were observed in L4. These results implied that SNI can cause considerable deterioration in the microarchitecture of trabecular bone in the lumbar vertebrae. However, differences in the magnitude and rate of the deterioration and its onset period are observed between cases of unilateral and bilateral SNI.
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    Bilateral asymmetry in microarchitecture of trabecular bone in male c57bl/6 mouse tibia: Implication for experimental sample size estimations
    ( 2013)
    Ko, C.-Y.
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    Jung, Y.-J.
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    Seo, D.H.
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    Kim, H.S.
    This study aimed to determine whether there is bilateral asymmetry between the left and right tibiae in the microarchitectural characteristics of the trabecular bone and estimate a moderate sample size for detections of such bilateral differences. The left and right tibiae of 20 C57BL/6 mice (12 weeks old) were scanned by micro-computed tomography, and the structural parameters of the trabecular bone were measured. There were significant differences in the structural parameters between the left and right tibiae (p<0.05); specifically, the microarchitecture was greater in quantity and quality in the left tibia than in the right tibia. Moreover, the percent of bilateral differences between the left and right tibiae ranged from 2.26% to 22.52%. For most of the structural parameters except for trabecular bone thickness (Tb.Th) and trabecular bone separation (Tb.Sp), the 20 mice involved in this study were enough to detect differences. These results show that the directional left-right asymmetry in the microarchitecture of the trabecular bone may exist despite the samples being from an inbred strain. Furthermore, we estimated a sample size for detections of such differences between the left and right tibiae.