Fig. 6. (A) Relative mineralizing surface, (B) relative mineral apposition rates and (C) relative bone formation rate in the short-term recovery experiment. The relative (right minus left) mineralizing surface (rMS/BS), relative mineral apposition rate (rMAR) and relative bone formation rate (rBFR/BS) were enhanced in the bending groups (open columns) but not in the sham-bending or control groups (filled columns). The 14 s recovery group exhibited a significantly greater relative bone formation rate and relative mineralizing surface than the other three bending groups, which were not significantly different from one another, but were significantly different from each of the three controls. For comparison among bending groups, an asterisk indicates a significant difference from the 0.5, 3.5 and 7 s bending groups, based on Fisher’s protected LSD at 
=0.05. The significance of right (loaded) versus left (nonloaded) comparisons is indicated in Table 2. Values are means + S.E.M. For values of N, see Table 2.
