Chronic Hyperglycemia Modulates Rat Osteoporotic Cortical Bone Microarchitecture into Less Fragile Structures

Figure 5

Bone ultrastructure obtained by scanning electron microscopy; images at 150x magnification, of longitudinal tibia cross-sections of healthy controls—sham (a), ovariectomized—OVX (b), hyperglycemic (c), and hyperglycemic-ovariectomized—STZ + OVX (d) animals.

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