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Correction to: Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture
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Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture
The 1994 WHO criterion of a T-score ≤ -2.5 for densitometric osteoporosis was chosen because it results in a prevalence commensurate with the observed lifetime risk of fragility fractures in Caucasian women ag...
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East Asians’ T-scores for the diagnosis of osteoporosis should be calculated using ethnicity- and gender-specific BMD reference ranges: justifications
The 2013 ISCD consensus recommended a Caucasian female reference database for T-score calculation in men, which says “A uniform Caucasian (non-race adjusted) female reference database should be used to calculate ...
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Functional characteristics of the brain in college students with internet gaming disorder
Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is a subtype of internet addiction disorder (IAD), but its pathogenesis remains unclear. This study investigated brain function in IGD individuals using task-state functional mag...
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Ultrasound and MRI of the peroneal tendons and associated pathology
Lateral ankle pain is common with overuse and sports-related injuries and may cause considerable morbidity. The differential diagnosis of lateral ankle pain is extensive. Disorders of the peroneal tendons shou...
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Open AccessEnhanced antitumoral efficacy and immune response following conditionally replicative adenovirus containing constitutive HSF1 delivery to rodent tumors
Oncolytic adenoviruses are promising as anticancer agents but have limited clinical responses. Our previous study showed that heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) overexpression could increase the anti-tum...
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Open AccessPhenotypic characterization of skeletal abnormalities of Osteopotentia mutant mice by micro-CT: a descriptive approach with emphasis on reconstruction techniques
The novel protein osteopotentia (Opt) has recently been described as an essential regulator of postnatal osteoblast maturation and might possibly be responsible for some of the rarer types of osteogenesis impe...
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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of bone: two cases occurring in long bone
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an unusual tumor composed of differentiated myofibroblastic spindle cells usually accompanied by numerous plasma cells and lymphocytes. IMT was originally described ...
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Establishment of BMD reference curves at different skeletal sites in women, using a Cartesian coordinate numeration system
The BMD reference curve is the reference value used for diagnosing osteoporosis and assessing bone mass changes. Its accuracy would affect the correctness of T -score and Z -score values and thus the reliability ...
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Basic fibroblast growth factor improves trabecular bone connectivity and bone strength in the lumbar vertebral body of osteopenic rats
Recently, basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) has been found to increase trabecular bone mass and connectivity in the proximal tibial metaphyses (PTM) in osteopenic rats. The purpose of this study was to det...
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Comparison of spine and femur reference data in native Chinese women from different regions of China
The aim of this study is to explore the differences of BMD reference curves at various skeletal sites among Chinese women from different regions of China and to investigate the feasibility of establishing a un...
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Application of micro-ct assessment of 3-d bone microstructure in preclinical and clinical studies
As the mechanical competence of trabecular bone is a function of its apparent density and 3-D distribution, assessment of 3-D trabecular structural characteristics may improve our ability to understand the pat...
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Relationship of body surface area with bone density and its risk of osteoporosis at various skeletal regions in women of mainland China
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between body surface area (BS) and bone mineral density (BMD) and the associated osteoporosis risk at various skeletal regions in women from mainland C...
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Determination of age-specific bone mineral density and comparison of diagnosis and prevalence of primary osteoporosis in Chinese women based on both Chinese and World Health Organization criteria
The aim of this study was to determine age-specific bone mineral density (BMD) at various skeletal regions in a native Chinese reference population, and to explore the differences in the diagnosis of primary o...
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Microcracks: an alternative index for evaluating bone biomechanical quality
To investigate microcracks as a potential index of bone biomechanical quality in rats, 98 Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, 10 months old, were used. Eight rats were killed at the beginning of the study, to serve as b...
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SHIP-deficient mice are severely osteoporotic due to increased numbers of hyper-resorptive osteoclasts
The hematopoietic-restricted protein Src homology 2–containing inositol-5-phosphatase (SHIP) blunts phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-initiated signaling by dephosphorylating its major substrate, phosphatidylinosi...
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Trabecular microstructure and surface changes in the greater tuberosity in rotator cuff tears
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