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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Experimental groups

From: The effect of locally delivered recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 with hydroxyapatite/tri-calcium phosphate on the biomechanical properties of bone in diabetes-related osteoporosis

Groups

Testing time-point

 

4 weeks

8 weeks

Diabetic + saline

5 rats

8 rats

Diabetic + HA/TCP + buffer

6 rats

6 rats

Diabetic + HA/TCP  + low-dose rhBMP-2

5 rats

6 rats

Diabetic + HA/TCP + high-dose rhBMP-2

6 rats

6 rats