Age effect on healing femoral fractures: time course
Summary:
Analysis of healing femurs of 6, 26, and 52-week-old Sprague-Dawley females at various time points up to 6 weeks after fracture. 6, 26, and 52-week-old animals regain normal skeletal biomechanics 4 weeks, 10 weeks, and 6 months after fracture, respectively.
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