A similar state is even found within subchondral bone erosions: although in these lesions only a minority of bone-active cells are osteoblasts, they are almost exclusively found in the deeper cortical areas surrounding the bone erosion but are absent in the superficial area adjacent to articular cartilage.
He has been active in a wide range of charities, particularly those seeking to increase the number of minority bone marrow donors.
One reason that only a minority of older women get bone density testing is that osteoporosis is asymptomatic: People often don't know they're at risk until they break a bone, said Jeffrey Curtis, a rheumatologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who was lead author of that study.
Furthermore, A-type lamin proteins are found only in a minority of cells from the bone marrow, thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes, which may represent cell types of the stroma such as epithelial cells, pericytes, inflammatory cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells [8], [13] [15].
The SPECT/CT scan allows a substantial minority of patients to avoid bone puncture, although MRI would probably give similar results because the two methods have the same sensitivity.
Through that experience, Weiner learned that there was a shortage of bone marrow donors from minority groups.
Only a minority of men reported treatment with bone specific drugs after their incident rib fracture.
Enumerating the different agents is well beyond the scope of this article, however only a small minority are in common clinical use for detection of bone metastatic disease.
Dose-intense chemotherapy regimens investigated in small single institution trials, but with the exception of bone marrow transplantation for a minority of patients, little has improved the median overall survival of patients with RS beyond eight months.
Cancer Cures and False Hopes Except for the minority of them eligible for a bone-marrow transplant, the 25,000 Americans with chronic myelogenous leukemia were, until recently, facing certain death from their disease.
