Table 2 Histomorphometric data representing four wild type and three SOST knockout animals

From: Dental and periodontal phenotype in sclerostin knockout mice

Parameters

Number

Mean

Variety of wild type/%

Standard deviation

Wild type

Sclerostin

Wild type

Sclerostin

Wild tpye

Sclerostin

Basal body area

4

3

7.73×105

1.87×106

+141.72

43 636

1.04×105

Basal body width

4

3

500.84

940.42

+87.77

26.20

47.45

Alveolar part area

4

3

5.75×105

8.21×105

+42.86

44 778

24 692

Alveolar part width

4

3

411.43

550.66

+33.84

17.80

20.25

Periodontal space area

4

3

2.84×105

2.28×105

−19.71

19 336

16 661

Periodontal space width

4

3

80.317

61.143

−23.87

7.34

3.57

Dentine area

4

3

6.27×105

6.45×105

+2.86

53 242

49 833

Total cement area

4

3

99 884

1.51×105

+50.68

16 162

28 224

Total cement width

4

3

258.77

327.94

+26.73

30.92

40.53

Buccal acellular cement area

4

3

52 111

72 729

+39.57

10 735

22 294

Buccal acellular cement width

4

3

128.14

153.59

+19.86

16.27

27.70

Buccal cellular cement area

4

3

1 568

2 070

+32.01

176.14

202.46

Buccal cellular cement width

4

3

5.09

6.85

+34.65

0.63

0.29

Lingual acellular cement area

4

3

42 949

70 715

+64.65

11 781

16 061

Lingual acellular cement width

4

3

117.51

154.59

+31.55

23.09

14.01

Lingual cellular cement area

4

3

3 256.42

4 988.80

+53.23

638.81

160.06

Lingual cellular cement width

4

3

8.03

12.90

+60.71

1.82

1.47

Mandibular porosity area

4

3

1.02×105

21 991

−78.42

26 601

2 643.9

Mandibular canal area

4

3

55 155

61 327

+11.19

2 327.1

4 496.7

Inferior alveolar nerve area

4

3

17 454

25 512

+46.17

1 722.4

2 578.7

Pulp chamber area

4

3

2.03×105

1.32×105

−35.06

15 078

35 230

  1. A descriptive statistic was performed. Values are given in μm.