Abstract
Effect of High Salt Diet on Bone in Adult Male Albino Rats
Highlights
The skeleton has structural, protective and locomotor functions, and is a storage site for calcium
Evaluation of the food intake, body weight gain, and body mass index (BMI): The data presented in table (1) show that high salt diet (HSD) significantly increased the food intake compared to the control groups
The body weight gain and BMI were significantly lower in HSD group compared to the control group
Summary
The skeleton has structural, protective and locomotor functions, and is a storage site for calcium. Cortical bone that surrounds the marrow space is dense and solid as it is heavily calcified. It has the main structural and protective role. It has an outer periosteal surface and inner endosteal surface. The periosteum is a fibrous connective tissue sheath that surrounds the outer cortical surface of bone, except at joints where bone is lined by articular cartilage (Neto and Ferreira, 2018). The structural components of bone consist of extracellular matrix and hydroxyapatite crystals of calcium-phosphate deposited in it. Bone cells regulate skeletal metabolism, their progenitors are help in this process. Macrophages, and mast cells may mediate certain aspects of skeletal metabolism (Kini and Nandeesh., 2012)
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