Serum osteoprotegerin/osteoclastogenesis-inhibitory factor during pregnancy and lactation and the relationship with calcium-regulating hormones and bone turnover markers

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 353-359

  Uemura, H ^a   Yasui, T ^a   Kiyokawa, M ^a   Kuwahara, A ^a   Ikawa, H ^a   Matsuzaki, T ^a   Maegawa, M ^a   Furumoto, H ^a   Irahara, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METABOLISM; BONE TURNOVER; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LACTATION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE RESORPTION; CALCIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LACTATION; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VITAMIN D;

EID: 0036687778     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1740353     Document Type: Article

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