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High levels of fat and (n-6) fatty acids in cancellous bone in osteoarthritis

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is strongly linked with obesity and patients with osteoporosis (OP) have a low body mass index. Anecdotal evidence, clinical and laboratory, suggests that OA bone contains more fat. However, conversion of osteoblasts to adipocytes is reported in OP and this would sugg...

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Autores principales: Plumb, Mandy S, Aspden, Richard M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC446208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15207011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-3-12