%0 Journal Article %T Postnatal ex£¿vivo rat model for longitudinal bone growth investigations %A Adamu Abdul Abubakar %A Ahmed Khalaf Ali %A Kareem Obayes Handool %A Mohamed Noordin Mustapha %A Mohammad Shuaib Khan %A Sahar Mohammed Ibrahim %A Tengku Azmi Ibrahim %A Ubedullah Kaka %J Archive of "Animal Models and Experimental Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.1002/ame2.12051 %X Chondrocytes in the growth plate (GP) undergo increases in volume during different cascades of cell differentiation during longitudinal bone growth. The volume increase is reported to be the most significant variable in understanding the mechanism of long bone growth %K bone growth model %K chondrocytes %K endochondral ossification %K growth plate %K Sprague©\Dawley rat %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431117/