Biochemistry - Lipids, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Biochemistry - Hormones, Immunology, Women's Diseases & Disorders, Joint & Skeletal Diseases & Disorders, Pharmacology, Osteology, Biochemistry - Enzymes, Biochemistry - Proteins - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Whitfield (Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada) describes the efforts being made to combat osteoporosis, a disease which is crippling many women in the graying population of developed countries and a rising quantity of men as well. He begins by describing osteoporosis, how it begins and progresses, and the conditions and injuries it causes, then examines BMUS ("the microcrack fixers"), the relationship between menopause and bone loss, the work of the bone-anabolic PTHs and how they might stimulate bone growth, the possibilities of the osteogenic growth peptide and the stains, the nature of surface signaling steroids, whether as real anabolics or pseudo-anabolics, and the possible contributions of strontium. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
April 28, 2005
Publisher
Landes Bioscience
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781587060250