Gunji Harumoto, Hosaka Kazuhiko, Huffman Michael A, Kawanaka Kenji, Matsumoto-Oda Akiko, Hamada Yuzuru, Nishida Toshisada
Japan Monkey Centre, Inuyama, Aichi 484-0081, Japan.
Primates. 2003 Apr;44(2):145-9. doi: 10.1007/s10329-002-0030-8. Epub 2003 Feb 14.
We examined bone mineral density (BMD) of the femoral neck and lumbar vertebrae of four chimpanzee skeletons from Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, and four captive ones, with a dual energy X-ray absorptiometer. The BMD of Wansombo, an old female chimpanzee from Mahale, was remarkably lower than the mean of the other six younger adult female chimpanzees and categorized as osteoporosis. Posture, locomotion, and trunk-sacral anatomy of chimpanzees may have prevented fractures in Wansombo, whose BMD was below human osteoporosis criteria.
我们使用双能X射线吸收仪,对来自坦桑尼亚马哈尔山国家公园的四具黑猩猩骨骼以及四只圈养黑猩猩的股骨颈和腰椎的骨密度(BMD)进行了检测。来自马哈尔的老年雌性黑猩猩万索姆博的骨密度显著低于其他六只年轻成年雌性黑猩猩的平均值,并被归类为骨质疏松症。黑猩猩的姿势、运动方式和躯干-骶骨解剖结构可能避免了万索姆博发生骨折,尽管它的骨密度低于人类骨质疏松症的标准。