Aromatization of androgens is important for skeletal maintenance of aged male rats

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-183

  Vanderschueren, D ^a   Van Herck, E ^a   De Coster, R ^b   Bouillon, R ^a  

^a Onderwijs en Navorsing   (Belgium)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Androgens; Aromatase; Bone; Osteoporosis; Vorozole

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; OSTEOCALCIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; VOROZOLE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMUR; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPOGONADISM; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORCHIECTOMY; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; AMINO ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE RESORPTION; CALCIUM; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTROGENS; FEMUR; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPOROSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 0029791716     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002239900106     Document Type: Article

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