Subclinical hypervitaminosis A causes fragile bones in rats

Bone

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 685-689

  Johansson, S ^a   Lind, P M ^a,b   Hakansson H ^b   Oxlund, H ^c   Orberg J ^a   Melhus, Håkan ^a,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hypervitaminosis A; Osteoporosis; Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT); Rat; Retinol; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOID; RETINOL; RETINOL ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE BOWING; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE LESION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURE; GENDER; LIVER LEVEL; MATURITY; METAPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETINOL INTOXICATION; RISK; TIME; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HYPERVITAMINOSIS A; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINOIDS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12244265460     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8756-3282(02)00910-9     Document Type: Article

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