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  1. Morphological and electrophysiological studies of ischemic muscles in peripheral arterial disease disclosed evidence of denervation and fibre atrophy. The purpose of the present study is to describe morphologi...

    Authors: Maria Albani, Angelos Megalopoulos, Dimitris Kiskinis, Sotirios A Parashos, Nikolaos Grigoriadis and Olympia Guiba-Tziampiri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:8
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  2. Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors increase new bone formation in vitro and in rodents. Results of epidemiologic analyses evaluating the association between use of these cholesterol-lowering dr...

    Authors: Judith Hsia, Megan Morse and Virginia Levin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:7
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  3. Bisphosphonates are indicated in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. However, bone mineral density (BMD) continues to decline in up to 15% of bisphosphonate users. While randomized trials have evalua...

    Authors: George A Heckman, Alexandra Papaioannou, Rolf J Sebaldt, George Ioannidis, Annie Petrie, Charlie Goldsmith and Jonathan D Adachi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:6
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  4. Dislocated fracture of the proximal physeal plate of the tibia with or without metaphyseal fragment is rare in children. This unusual fracture classically excludes rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament due...

    Authors: Stefan Scholz, Julian Köpke and Lucas M Wessel
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:5
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  5. Recent evidence suggests that estrogens exert effects in different tissues throughout the body, and that the estrogen receptor β (ERβ) may be important for the action of estrogen (17-β-estradiol) on the skelet...

    Authors: Helen E Gruber, Dean Yamaguchi, Jane Ingram, Kelly Leslie, Weibiao Huang, Timothy A Miller and Edward N Hanley Jr
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:4
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  7. Fibromyalgia syndrome displays sympathetically maintained pain features such as frequent post-traumatic onset and stimuli-independent pain accompanied by allodynia and paresthesias. Heart rate variability stud...

    Authors: Manuel Martinez-Lavin, Marcela Vidal, Rosa-Elda Barbosa, Carlos Pineda, Jose-Miguel Casanova and Arnulfo Nava
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:2
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  8. Open dislocations are infrequent, often associated with damage to the neuro vascular structures. We present an unusual case of an open antero-lateral dislocation of the elbow, which was not associated with any...

    Authors: Juan A Alonso, Bibas R Roy and David L Shaw
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002 3:1
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. Bone remodelling is dependent on the balance between bone resorbing osteoclasts and bone forming osteoblasts. We have shown previously that osteoclasts contain gap-junctional protein connexin-43 and that a com...

    Authors: Joanna Ilvesaro, Pasi Tavi and Juha Tuukkanen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Articular cartilage has limited capacity to repair. Defects greater than 3 mm heal with formation of inferior fibrous cartilage. Therefore, many attempts have been made to find the ideal graft for larger carti...

    Authors: Margarete K Akens, Brigitte von Rechenberg, Pedro Bittmann, Daniel Nadler, Kati Zlinszky and Jörg A Auer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:9
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  11. Acquired toxoplasmosis more frequently goes unrecognized. Immunocompetent adults and adolescents with primary infection are generally asymptomatic, but symptoms may include malaise, fever, and lymphadenopathy....

    Authors: Penelope K Paspalaki, Eleni P Mihailidou, Maria Bitsori, Daria Tsagkaraki and Eva Mantzouranis
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:8
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is often seen as the treatment of choice for preventing fractures in women. We undertook a recent meta-analysis of randomised trials which suggested that HRT reduced non-verte...

    Authors: David J Torgerson and Sally EM Bell-Syer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:7
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  13. Interlocking nailing, which has become the method of choice for treating fractures of the femoral and tibial shafts, still lacks ability to provide the important contact-compression at the fracture. An intrame...

    Authors: Ajay Gupta
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:6
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  15. Needle EMG may be negative in mild or predominantly sensory lumbosacral radiculopathies. In such cases, an increase in the latency of the soleus H-reflex is a useful diagnostic criterion for establishing senso...

    Authors: Riccardo Mazzocchio, Giovanni Battista Scarfò, Aldo Mariottini, Vitaliano Francesco Muzii and Lucio Palma
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:4
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  16. CMV infections have been linked to vasculopathies like atherosclerosis and Scleroderma. CMV infects vascular endothelium with intermittent shedding of the virus and the development of latency.

    Authors: Damir Hamamdzic, Russell A Harley, Debra Hazen-Martin and E Carwile LeRoy
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:3
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  18. Although all patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty are subjected to similar risk factors that predispose to thromboembolism, only a subset of patients develop this complication. The objective of this st...

    Authors: Craig J Della Valle, Paul S Issack, Avi Baitner, David J Steiger, Carrie Fang and Paul E Di Cesare
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2001 2:1
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