Herbal Medicine for General and Disuse Osteoporosis
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Ping-Chung Leung1,2* 1State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China 2Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong *Corresponding author: Ping Chung Leung, 5/F School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, Tel: (852) 2252 8868; Fax: (852) 2632 5441; E-mail: [email protected]
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[Disuse osteoporosis].
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