Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Does androgen receptor modulation affect longitudinal growth of cultured fetal rat metatarsal bones?
Answer: Modulation of AR activity in the fetal rat growth plate does not affect linear bone growth. Extrapolating from these in vitro data, it could be speculated that oxandrolone stimulates longitudinal bone growth in treated children by acting indirectly rather than directly through AR activation in growth plate chondrocytes.
Output (English): no