Trabecular bone patterning in the hominoid distal femur.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to external bone shape and cortical bone thickness and distribution, the distribution and orientation of internal trabecular bone across individuals and species has yielded important functional information on how bone adapts in response to load. In particular, trabecular bone analysis has played a key role in studies of human and nonhuman primate locomotion and has shown that species with different locomotor repertoires display distinct trabecular architecture in various regions of the skeleton. In this study, we analyse trabecular structure throughout the distal femur of extant hominoids and test for differences due to locomotor loading regime.

Methods

Micro-computed tomography scans of Homo sapiens (n = 11), Pan troglodytes (n

SUBMITTER: Georgiou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035864 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature