Minodronate treatment improves low bone mass and reduces progressive thoracic scoliosis in a mouse model of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

• Hironori Tanabe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iamhiro1978@yahoo.co.jp

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4141-4480

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• Yoichi Aota ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichi Aota, Yasuteru Yamaguchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Spine & Spinal Cord, Yokohama Brain & Spine Center, Yokohama, Japan

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• Yasuteru Yamaguchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichi Aota, Yasuteru Yamaguchi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Kanichiro Kaneko,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Sousuke Imai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Masaki Takahashi,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Yokohama City University Center for Novel and Exploratory Clinical Trials, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Masataka Taguri,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Tomoyuki Saito

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

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