Bone loss in the spondyloarthropathies: role of osteoclast, RANKL, RANK and OPG in the spondyloarthropathies.

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Summary

This chapter will review the recent literature on the role of osteoclasts and the RANKL/OPG system in the various spondyloarthropathies and try to formulate a hypothesis for the possible mechanism of bone loss in this group of inflammatory rheumatic disease.

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review
Published
2009-01-01
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Keywords

RANKL, Osteoclast, Bone resorption, RANK Ligand, Medicine

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