The Role of Osteocytes in Age-Related Bone Loss

Current Osteoporosis Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 16-25

  Jilka, Robert L ^a   O’Brien, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autophagy; Bone remodeling; Osteocytes; Osteoporosis; RANKL

Indexed keywords

AGING; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BONE MASS; BONE MATRIX; BONE REMODELING; CELL ORGANELLE; LONGEVITY; MACROMOLECULE; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOLYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SKELETON; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OSTEOPOROSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT BEARING;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GENETIC MARKER; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; SOST PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; BONE REMODELING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; OSTEOCYTES; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; RANK LIGAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84960376047     PISSN: 15441873     EISSN: 15442241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-016-0297-0     Document Type: Review

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