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Francisco VA Medical Center Endocrine Research Unit for generating the microCT images and data, and
acknowledge University of Arizona undergraduates, Madison Egan, Lily Alvord, Albiya Thomas, and
Geethika Ameneni, for their contributions to the data analyses.

Authors’ contributions
Designed the research: Cheng JN, Funk JL
Acquired the data: Cheng JN, Frye JB, Whitman SA
Analyzed data and performed statistical analyses: Cheng JN, Frye JB, Whitman SA, Kunihiro AG, Brickey
JA, Funk JL
First draft of the manuscript: Cheng JN, Funk JL

Availability of data and materials
Not applicable.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
(R03CA181893 and R01CA174926 to JLF, T32CA00923, P30CA023074); METAvivor (Translational
Research Award, JLF); the Phoenix Chapter of ARCS Foundation (JNC); and the Louise Foucar Marshall
Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (JNC).

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
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Copyright
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