Plasma osteocalcin in healthy Nigerian children and in children with calcium-deficiency rickets

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 424-427

  Oginni, L M ^a,b,c   Worsfold, M ^b   Sharp, C A ^b   Oyelami, O A ^a   Powell, D E ^b   Davie, M W J ^b  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Charles Salt Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1,25 Dihydroxyvitamin D; Calcium deficiency; Osteocalcin; Rickets

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; OSTEOCALCIN; PHOSPHATE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGERIA; OSTEOBLAST; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029857715     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00369204     Document Type: Article

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