Treatment with Rhizoma Dioscoreae Extract Has Protective Effect on Osteopenia in Ovariectomized Rats

Table 3

Effect of RDE on PINP and CTX in serum after 12 weeks of treatment.

	SHAM	OVX	E2	RDE
P1NP (𝜇g/L)	7.62±0.13	10.90±0.21^b	7.38±0.16^d	8.05±0.27^c
CTX (𝜇g/L)	12.50±2.31	35.77±4.69^b	18.77±2.50^d	25.40±3.64^d

Values are presented as the means ± SD (𝑛=12 in each group).
^b𝑃<0.01 versus SHAM group; ^c𝑃<0.05 versus OVX group; ^d𝑃<0.01 versus OVX group.