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| Bai,Xiaofan; Liu,Guomin; Xu,Chuanjie; Zhuang,Yingying; Zhang,Jinlong; Jia,Yuyan; Liu,Yi. |
| Deer and sheep are used as spinal animal models in clinical and basic research. In this paper, the anatomical morphology, curvature, and morphology index parameters were investigated to assess the feasibility of using deer and sheep as animal models of the human spine. Fresh adult male sheep, deer, and human spine specimens (n = 10 each) were screened and subjected to morphological analyses. The statistical software package SPSS (version 17.0) was used to analyze the statistical similarity and variability among the 3 species. Deer displayed good similarity to human in terms of the vertebral transverse diameter, radius vector, spinal canal transverse diameter, radius vector, and vertebral upper and lower endplate curvature radii. Sheep displayed good... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Lumbar spine; Animal model; Human; Deer; Sheep; Morphometry. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022012000200025 |
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