Microarchitectural changes in the aging skeleton

Current Osteoporosis Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 177-183

  Gabet, Yankel ^a   Bab, Itai ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortical porosity; Microcracks; Osteocyte lacunocanalicular network; Osteoporosis; Skeletal microstructure; Trabecular thinning

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MATRIX; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; METAPHYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROANALYSIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOLYSIS; PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRABECULAR BONE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OSTEOCYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81255129520     PISSN: 15441873     EISSN: 15442241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-011-0072-1     Document Type: Article

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