Ki-Jung is getting her hair done at the neighborhood shop. Ki-Woo is sucking on a popsicle on the sofa behind her. KI-WOO It has a nice ring. Anyhow. She’s a nice lady. Young. Not the brightest tool in the shed. The money is good, and most of all, she’s a ‘believer....
On the left, cells isolated from breast cancer cells were treated with RANKL, a growth factor that stimulates bone resorption, to produce osteoclasts (pink). When morphine was added to the cell culture (right), the number of osteoclasts increased, suggesting that morphine stimulated osteoclast prod...
The most common type of anemia is iron-deficiency anemia. This is usually the result of low iron in your dietor a loss of blood. Your body needs iron to produce hemoglobins in your blood and ensure your organs get the oxygen they need. Pernicious anemiais another common type of anemia t...
Bisphosphonate class of drugs, the most commonly prescribed for the treatment of osteoporosis, is effective in preventing and treating bone loss and fractures. However, the treatment duration and the applicability of "drug holidays" for bisphosphonates need optimization in order to minimize long-term ...
Rituximab is a chimeric monoclonal antibody targeting CD20-expressing B cells. It has been commonly used as an off-label treatment for ITP for nearly 2 decades. The short-term response rates range from 60 to 70% in patients treated with the standard 4 weekly doses of 375 mg/m2 rituximab,...
Prolia®is the result of recent thinking in bone science. This has changed how we think about bone loss and ways to treat osteoporosis. It helps stop the development of bone-removing cells before they can reach and damage the bone.
Results At the lumbar spine, during the first 12 months, 1.5% of hormone users lost BMD with 97.5% confidence, corresponding to a decline of 3% per year; during months 12 to 36, only 0.6% of treated women lost spinal BMD to this degree. An annual loss of 1% or more was the ...
Crohn's disease can turn your life into a gastrointestinal nightmare, but there is hope. Ad According to theNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases(NIDDK), more than half a million Americans have Crohn'sdisease, which has become more common in the United States in rece...
Androgen insufficiency in ageing men: how is it defined and should it be treated? 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 36 作者: P Coates 摘要: Testosterone is reduced in several disorders including chronic renal, liver, cardiac or respiratorydisease, inflammatory conditions, and severe acute ...
Bone is a unique tissue: It contains not only cells that build the hard matrix that gives the skeleton its strength, but also cells that break it down — enabling bone to reshape itself as a child grows, and to repair itself throughout life. The bone builders are called osteoblasts, a...