Histological examination of changes due to aging in the femur compacta of laboratory and house mice
Rajtová, V.; Globocnik, E.
Gegenbaurs Morphologisches Jahrbuch 124(5): 649-662
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-5840 PMID: 753686 Document Number: 139154
The age changes in the histological structure of the femur corticalis in ICR laboratory mice (from 20 to 300 days) and in house mice (from 50 to 520 days) were studied. In both forms of mice the circumferential lamellae prevailed, with increased age they are substitued by secondary but mainly primary Haversian systems and the interstitial systems of vartious shape. Certain differences in the construction of the femur corticalis, were found in both species of mice; from among the latter the mouse is more suitable for the demonstration of age changes.