The effect of growth rate on the three-dimensional orientation of vascular canals in the cortical bone of broiler chickens

Journal of Anatomy
Isaac V Pratt, David M L Cooper

Abstract

Vascular canals in cortical bone during growth and development typically show an anisotropic pattern with canals falling into three main categories: circumferential, radial, and longitudinal. Two major hypotheses attempt to explain the preferred orientations in bone: that vascular canal orientation is optimized to resist a predominant strain direction from functional loading, or that it reflects growth requirements and velocity. We use a controlled growth experiment in broiler chickens to investigate the effect of growth rate on vascular canal orientation. Using feed restriction we set up a fast growing control group and a slow growing restricted group. We compared the microstructure in the humerus and the femur at 42 days of age using synchrotron micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), a three-dimensional (3D) method that visualizes the full canal network. We measured the 3D orientation of each canal in the whole cross-section of the bone cortex using a set of custom ImageJ scripts. Using these orientations we compute laminar, radial, and longitudinal indices that measure the proportion of circumferential, radial, and longitudinal canals, by unit of length, in the cortex. Following previous studies we hypothesized that vascular ...Continue Reading

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