Perspective: Postmenopausal Osteoporosis as a Failure of Bone's Adaptation to Functional Loading: A Hypothesis *

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Summary

Research to prevent or treat osteoporosis could be directed usefully to understanding how osteoblasts, lining cells, and osteocytes respond to mechanically derived information and how these responses are converted into stimuli controlling structurally appropriate modeling and remodeling.

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review
Published
2001-11-01
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Keywords

Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal osteoporosis, Adaptation (eye), Perspective (graphical), Medicine

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