Growing bone
By: James F. Whitfield.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587061561
Subjects: Osteoporosis -- Prevention; Osteoporosis -- Hormone therapy; Anabolic steroids -- Therapeutic use; Parathyroid hormone -- Therapeutic use; Bone and Bones -- metabolism; Bone Regeneration -- physiology; Osteoporosis -- prevention & control; Peptides -- therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is osteoporosis?; title: BMUS: the microcrack fixers; title: Menopause and bone loss; title: The amazing bone-anabolic PTHs; title: How might PTHs stimulate bone growth?; title: The clinical prospects of the invincible PTHs; title: OGP: the osteogenic growth peptide; title: The statins; title: Surface signaling steroids-real anabolics or pseudo-anabolics?; title: Strontium, calcium's big brother.