Antiosteoporosis Effect of Radix Scutellariae Extract on Density and Microstructure of Long Bones in Tail-Suspended Sprague-Dawley Rats

Table 3

Effect of RSE treatment on bone biomechanical parameters in rat femoral diaphysis.

Parameters	Treatments
	CH	TS	TS-ALE	TS-RSE
Maximum stress (MPa)	165.27±16.46	137.08±9.93^∗	156.29±14.95^#	159.29±14.46^#
Young’s modulus (MPa)	3478.33±723.17	2130.25±375.55^∗∗	3610.74±269.63^###	2955.78±401.10^##
Maximum load (N)	110.82±9.22	75.99±6.60^∗∗∗	86.73±6.44^#	85.70±6.02^#
Stiffness (N/mm)	155.95±29.28	77.75±13.82^∗∗∗	132.49±15.31^###	101.12±18.05^#
Energy (N × m)	0.07±0.01	0.08±0.03	0.07±0.03	0.07±0.03

∗versus CH group: *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, and ***𝑃<0.001.
^#versus TS group: ^#𝑃<0.05, ^##𝑃<0.01, and ^###𝑃<0.001.