Vitamin C Prevents Hypogonadal Bone Loss

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Ling Ling ^a,b   Cao, Jay ^c   Sun, Merry ^b   Yuen, Tony ^b   Zhou, Raymond ^b   Li, Jianhua ^b   Peng, Yuanzhen ^b   Moonga, Surinder S ^b   Guo, Lida ^d   Mechanick, Jeffrey I ^b   Iqbal, Jameel ^b   Peng, Liu ^a   Blair, Harry C ^d   Bian, Zhuan ^a   Zaidi, Mone ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; OSTEOCALCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE TURNOVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG MECHANISM; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENOME IMPRINTING; HYPOGONADISM; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARIECTOMY;

EID: 84867304075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047058     Document Type: Article

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