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    Physiologic Leg Bowing is not a Physiologic Condition but Instead is Associated with Vitamin D Disorders in Toddlers

    When children around 2-year-old show leg bowing without lower-limb radiographic abnormalities for rickets, the leg bowing is classified as “physiologic” genu varum without conducting a blood test. However, it ...

    Yuko Sakamoto, Muneaki Ishijima, Satoshi Nakano in Calcified Tissue International (2020)

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    Influenza A variants with reduced susceptibility to baloxavir isolated from Japanese patients are fit and transmit through respiratory droplets

    Here we report the isolation of the influenza A/H1N1 2009 pandemic (A/H1N1pdm) and A/H3N2 viruses carrying an I38T mutation in the polymerase acidic protein—a mutation that confers reduced susceptibility to ba...

    Masaki Imai, Makoto Yamashita, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa in Nature Microbiology (2020)

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    Minimum Required Vitamin D Level for Optimal Increase in Bone Mineral Density with Alendronate Treatment in Osteoporotic Women

    Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are common in the elderly. Most previous studies using alendronate have used vitamin D supplementation regardless of individual vitamin D status. However, the minimum req...

    Muneaki Ishijima, Yuko Sakamoto, Makoto Yamanaka in Calcified Tissue International (2009)

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    The role of vitamin D metabolites in the treatment of osteoporosis

    Roberto Civitelli M.D., Eturo Ogata, Louis V. Avioli in Calcified Tissue International (1995)