Musculoskeletal aging is a major public health interesting and strain due to the significant
demographic modifications in the population, and it is linked to high risk of falls, loss of …

Bone and skeletal muscle are integrated organs and their coupling has been considered
mainly a mechanical one in which bone serves as attachment site to muscle while muscle …

As bones are levers for skeletal muscle to exert forces, both are complementary and
essential for locomotion and individual autonomy. In the past decades, the idea of a bone …

Abstract The International Society for Clinical Densitometry Official Revised Positions on
reporting of densitometry results in children represent current expert recommendations to …

Efforts to understand our anatomy and physiology can involve four often overlapping
phases. We study what occurs, then how, then ask why, and then seek clinical applications …

Prior to initiating a clinical trial in a post-menopausal osteoporosis study, it is reasonable to
recommence the evaluation of treatment in the 9-month-old ovariectomized female rat. A …

The International Society for Clinical Densitometry Official Positions on reporting of
densitometry results in children rep resent an effort to consolidate opinions to assist …

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether girls and boys categorized from body mass index (BMI)
values as overweight or obese for their age have lower bone mineral content (BMC) or lower …

In a 1960 paradigm of skeletal physiology, effector cells (chondroblasts, fibroblasts,
osteoblasts, osteoclasts, etc.) regulated by nonmechanical agents wholly determined the …

Body composition, fat distribution and bone mineral density were examined in lean women
suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and compared with body composition and …