Radiographs of the hands or other inflamed joints mostly show normal bone structure and alignment in early disease (Fig. 1) and are requested by some rheumatologists to establish a baseline.
Calcium, phosphate, and vitamin D are essential for normal bone structure and function, but several other micronutrients also have essential roles in bone mass.
Aging is considered as a primary risk factor for OA, due to loss of normal bone structure and accumulation of bone microdamage [ 47].
Normal bone density and osteocalcin levels ruled out detrimental consequences of the cortisol excess on bone structure and metabolism.
She and her brother looked strikingly alike, with strong bone structure and huge, dark eyes.
He has bone structure, and a fully operational sense of populist uplift.
Feel for bone structures and fat deposits.
For example, increased local bone turnover, decreased bone mineral content and stiffness, and decreased trabecular numbers have been observed in OA subchondral bone structure compared with normal bone [ 6- 8].
Bone remodeling, continuing process of synthesis and destruction that gives bone its mature structure and maintains normal calcium levels in the body.
To this end, we used a public gene expression profile containing data for normal mouse calvarial bone, normal mouse ulnar bone and normal mouse mandibular bone (GSE13563).
