Hypothesis: Fetal movement influences fetal and infant bone strength

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 880-886

  Miller, Marvin E ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE STRENGTH; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXERCISE; FETUS MOVEMENT; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; ORGAN INJURY; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; OSTEOPENIA; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; BONE DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEWBORN; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 27244447433     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.05.025     Document Type: Article

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