Research Article
The Cooccurrence of Obesity, Osteoporosis, and Sarcopenia in the Ovariectomized Rat: A Study for Modeling Osteosarcopenic Obesity in Rodents
Table 5
The effects of ovariectomy (ovx) and 17β-estradiol (ovx + E2) on blood parameters in rats with initial ages of five and ten months. Ovariectomy significantly lowered serum E2 and increased B-ALP and CTX in both age groups.
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Values are means ± SEM. Values that do not share the same superscript letters in each age category are significantly () different from each other. CTX, C-telopeptides of type I collagen; B-ALP, bone specific alkaline phosphatase; and E2, estrogen ( per treatment group). |