Growing Bone
2nd Edition
Published on 16. October 2007
272 pages
978-1-040-19267-2 (ISBN)
Description
Growing numbers of men and many more women are suffering from crippling bone loss called osteoporosis. By 2050 50% of Americans over 50 will be at risk of, or actually have, osteoporosis. In this book the reader will meet the newest real and possible bone builders and learn how they might work. These include novel steroids, an osteogenic growth pep
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
1,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-19267-2 (9781040192672)
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James F. Whitfield
Growing Bone
Book
10/2007
2nd Edition
CRC Press
€79.41
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Person
James F. Whitfield, Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Content
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
