In rats, PTH did not affect callus area under normal or reduced loading compared with vehicle.
In plain wordsIn rats, PTH did not change fracture callus area compared with vehicle under normal or reduced loading.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- No significant changeCallus area
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
ovariectomized rats with tibial fracture- Comparator
- Vehicle
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 20 µg/kg/day · injection · 8 weeksAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
We found that unloading reduced callus area significantly, whereas no effects of PTH(1-34) on callus area were seen in neither normally nor unloaded animals.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
For this purpose, we used female, 25-week-old ovariectomized rats.
Animals were subjected to closed midshaft fracture of the right tibia 10 weeks after ovariectomy.
For the following 8 weeks, half of the animals in each group received injections of hPTH(1-34) (20 µg/kg/day) and the other half received vehicle treatment.