Advancing our understanding of osteocyte cell biology

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-96

  Guo, Dayong ^a   Bonewald, Lynda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bone remodelling; osteocytes; parathyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993791789     PISSN: 1759720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1759720X09341484     Document Type: Review

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