Sex-specific developmental changes in muscle size and bone geometry at the femoral shaft

Bone

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 982-989

  Hogler W ^a,b   Blimkie, C J R ^a,c   Cowell, C T ^a   Inglis, D ^c   Rauch, F ^d   Kemp, A F ^a   Wiebe, P ^a   Duncan, C S ^a   Farpour Lambert, N ^a,e   Woodhead, H J ^a,f  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Growth; Mechanostat; Muscle; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRENGTH; CHILD; CORTICAL BONE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG LENGTHENING; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 41949133234     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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