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For nearly 40 years, the Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism, a publication of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), has been the leading comprehensive reference on bone and mineral health. In this fully revised 10th Edition, Dr. John P. Bilezikian and an expert editorial team of 34 global leaders and more than 300 contributing authors provide unsurpassed coverage of bone biology and bone diseases in a manner readily accessible to students, basic and clinical scientists, and practitioners.
A large literature exists on trabecular and cortical bone morphology. The engineering performance of bone, implied from its 3d architecture, is often the endpoint of bone biology experiments, being clinically relevant to bone fracture. How and why does bone travel along its complex spatio-temporal trajectory to acquire its architecture? The question "why" can have two meanings. The first, "teleological - why is an architecture advantageous?" – is the domain of substantial biomechanical research to date. The second, "etiological – how did an architecture come about?" – has received far less attention. This Frontiers Bone Research Topic invited contributions addressing this "etiological ...
Drawing on the expertise of a distinguished international team, this book contains 200 recent papers in the peer-reviewed literature that will affect the practice of physicians managing osteoporotic patients. Each paper is summarized, reviewed, and placed in clinical context. Coverage includes the underlying causes of osteoporosis and the latest di
Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in the last ten years, the condition still poses major clinical challenges. Non-adherence to drug therapy is a widespread problem in patients with rheumatic diseases and osteoporosis in particular. Part of the Oxford Rheumatology Library, this second edition summarizes the latest developments in the management of osteoporosis and includes new chapters covering the clinical role of denosumab and orthopaedic issues in the management of fractures in patients with osteoporosis. This practical pocketbook is an essential resource for trainees and clinicians in rheumatology, endocrinology, and geriatric medicine, as well as general practitioners and paramedical staff involved in osteoporosis care.
What makes us the way we are? Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our health, our intelligence, our temperaments—are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth? That’s the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us from infancy well into adulthood. Their research offers a bold new view of pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, abili...
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Due to their anatomical proximity, muscle and bone tissues are closely related with communication between the two tissues occurring through both physical and molecular mechanisms. Bone and muscle are endocrine organs in that both produce hormone-like molecules, influencing both each other and other distant tissues. The molecular communication between these two tissues constitutes a fundamental crosstalk. Various osteokines and myokines are involved in physiological mechanisms in bone and muscle, as well as in numerous other organs. Numerous in vivo and in vitro models have been developed over the years to clarify these mechanisms. A significant amount remains to be discovered about the endocrine role of the skeletal muscle system under physiological and pathological conditions.