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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: pharuils on 03/03/2005 21:32:01

Title: Bone Structure
Post by: pharuils on 03/03/2005 21:32:01
While covering Bones as part of my a-level we were told that
Does the composition vary depending of the function of the bone, e.g. does the femur have  more inorganic component than a typical bone?

Thanks
  Chris
Title: Re: Bone Structure
Post by: chris on 07/03/2005 13:57:34
Just a quick answer as i know you are itching to get this -

This is a paper which tackles the anatomical differences in bone composition :

http://journals.endocrinology.org/joe/155/0411/1550411.pdf

These guys looked very carefully at the anatomical variation in various biochemical measures across the skeleton including hips (read femur) and vertebrae.

Chris

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Title: Re: Bone Structure
Post by: qazibasit on 19/04/2005 15:13:18
well not so coz genetically all the bones are made up of same composition some difference is in its reformation and on its use.