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Figure 6
Evaluation of knee osteolysis by μCT.
Mice undergoing BAPN treatment and their controls were sacrificed at day 21 after intracardiac injection of MDA-MB-231-Luc2 cells, and their left hind limbs were examined by μCT. Hind limbs from age-matched non-tumor cell-injected mice were used as controls. Anterior, posterior, and medial μCT images of representative knee joints from the different groups are shown (A). Bone volumes were determined from measurements of three hundred 10 µm slices taken just distal to the proximal tibial growth plate and graphed as mean bone volume±SEM (B) (n = 8 for ‘no IC’, that is, control mice that were not injected with tumor cells; n = 9 for ‘no BAPN’; n = 10 for ‘BAPN d 7’; and n = 5 for ‘BAPN d −1’ groups). Asterisk indicates a statistical significance of P<0.05.