Human evolution and osteoporosis-related spinal fractures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Cotter, Meghan M ^a,b,c   Loomis, David A ^b   Simpson, Scott W ^a,c   Latimer, Bruce ^c   Hernandez, Christopher J ^c,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE SHAPE; BONE SIZE; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACIC SPINE; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE;

PAN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054787921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026658     Document Type: Article

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