Increased serum levels of N-telopeptides (NTx) of bone collagen in postmenopausal Nigerian women

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-128

  Baca, E A ^a   Ulibarri, V A ^a   Scariano, J K ^a   Ujah, I ^b   Bassi, A ^c   Rabasa, A I ^c   VanderJagt, D J ^a   Glew, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africans; Bone collagen; Bone markers; Parathyroid hormone; Postmenopausal women; Serum NTx

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; COLLAGEN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; BONE ATROPHY; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; BONE TURNOVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGERIA; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGING; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCIUM; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; NIGERIA; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PEPTIDES; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE;

EID: 0032778925     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002239900669     Document Type: Article

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