Effects of chair restraint on the strength of the tibia in rhesus monkeys (2001)

Hutchinson, T. M., Bakulin, A. V., Rakhmanov, A. S. et al.

Abstract

To determine the effects of the relative inactivity .. we used a non-invasive test to measure bending stiffness, or EI. ... Five monkeys, restrained in chairs for 14 days, showed decreases in EI.

Published
2001

Animal Type
Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

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Citation
Hutchinson, T. M., Bakulin, A. V., Rakhmanov, A. S. et al. 2001. Effects of chair restraint on the strength of the tibia in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Medical Primatology 30, 313-321.

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