Growing Bone

Informationen zum Autor James F. Whitfield, Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Zusammenfassung Growing numbers of men and many more women are suffering from crippling bone loss called osteoporosis Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Introduction 1. What Is Osteoporosis? 2. BMUS— The Microcrack Fixers 3. Menopause and Bone Loss 4. The Amazing Bone-Anabolic PTHs 5. How Might PTHs Stimulate Bone Growth? 6. The Clinical Prospects of the Invincible PTHs 7. OGP— The Osteogenic Growth Peptide 8. The Statins 9. Surface Signaling Steroids— Real Anabolics or Pseudo-Anabolics? 10. Strontium, Calcium’s Big Brother 11. Afterword

Product details

• Authors: Whitfield, James F Whitfield, James F. Whitfield, Whitfield James F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2007
• EAN: 9781587061561
• ISBN: 978-1-58706-156-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Medical Intelligence Unit (Unnumbered); Medical Intelligence Unit (Unnumbered)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Surgery, MEDICAL / Surgery / General, MEDICAL / Rheumatology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Rheumatology