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Seventeen ovariectomized and twenty-one intact female cynomolgus macaques were examined for differences in vertebral trabecular bone volume. The ovariectomized group exhibited significantly less trabecular bone than the intact group (p<.005), 22 months post-ovariectomy. This finding encourages the use of the cynomolgus monkey as a model for the mechanism of bone loss in ovariectomy or postmenopausal osteoporosis.
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Miller, L.C., Weaver, D.S., McAlister, J.A. et al. Effects of ovariectomy on vertebral trabecular bone in the cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). Calcif Tissue Int 38, 62–65 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02556597
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