Effects of a vitamin D analog, alfacalcidol, on bone and skeletal muscle in glucocorticoid-treated rats

Biomedical Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Miyakoshi, Naohisa ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kasukawa, Yuji ^a   Kamo, Keiji ^a   Shimada, Yoichi ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED MYOPATHY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEMUR; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROXYCHOLECALCIFEROLS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PREDNISOLONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 78650806304     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.31.329     Document Type: Article

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