Science news articles about 'bone turnover'

... which can release growth factors and produce a favorable environment for cancer cells. The suppression of bone turnover by zoledronic acid or other bisphosphonate drugs could make bones less friendly ...

... . Rapid rates of bone remodeling, regardless of the balance of breakdown and formation, can increase bone fragility." Hinton found that a greater reduction in body weight resulted in a greater ...

... phosphatase—a routinely measured laboratory marker of bone disease—may signal an increased risk of death, ... , treatment trials are needed to target high bone turnover diseases to reduce serum alkaline ...

... have nearly twice the expected risk of breaking a bone and an even higher risk of a foot or hand ... . Clowes and her group suspected that the accelerated bone turnover after weight loss surgery would ...

... at risk". The P-Mark project evaluates promising biomarkers and has selected 3: osteoprotegerin (a bone turnover protein discovered by the group of Prof Hamdy), PCA3 (Jacques Schalkens (Nijmegen, NL) ...