Bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical uptake as an indicator of mandibular growth in rats.
Uptake of a bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical is correlated with growth changes in the rat mandible. Uptake was highest in newborn rats, decreasing with increasing age.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002508:Cephalometry; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000254:growth & development*; D008335:Mandibular Condyle / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000254:growth & development; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*
C039597:technetium Tc 99m N-(methylamino)methylene diphosphonate; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate