Distinct Characteristics of Mandibular Bone Collagen Relative to Long Bone Collagen: Relevance to Clinical Dentistry

Table 1

Collagen cross-links of the mandible and the femur from SAM mice.

		Mouse	Mandible (𝑛=6)	Femur (𝑛=10)
			6 months	4 months	12 months
Immature crosslinks	deH-DHLNL	SAMR1	1.30 ± 0.01	—	—
		SAMP6	1.16 ± 0.06	—	—
	deH-HLNL	SAMR1	0.12 ± 0.01	—	—
		SAMP6	0.12 ± 0.02	—	—
Mature crosslinks	Pyr	SAMR1	0.34 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.03	0.80 ± 0.02
		SAMP6	0.34 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.02	0.84 ± 0.04
	d-Pyr	SAMR1	0.02 ± 0.01	0.028 ± 0.011	0.052 ± 0.007
		SAMP6	0.02 ± 0.00	0.030 ± 0.011	0.048 ± 0.009

Values show mean ± SD (mol/mol collagen). The data of the mandible and the femur was reported by Tokutomi et al. [14] and Silva et al. [15], respectively.