Bone properties and response behavior after static or dynamic activation (loading) are still interesting topics in many fields of the science especially in the biomechanical problems such as bone loss of astronauts in space, osteoporosis, bone remodeling after fracture or remodeling after surgery (endoprosthesis and implants) and in osteointegration. This contribution deals with the relation be...

PURPOSE The target of our work was to study several biochemical parameters in phospho-calcic and bone metabolism in blood and urine and the bone mineral density of women with recurrent calcium nephrolithiasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study with a control group of 85 women divided into 3 groups: group 1 consisted of 25 women without a history of nephrolithiasis, gr...

Currently, bone mineral density (BMD) is the gold standard for in vivo assessment of frac23 ture risk of bones and is measured using X-ray absorptiometric techniques.1 However, only 24 70–80% of the variance of bone strength is accounted for by bone density. As the brittle25 ness of bone depends on more factors than bone density, biologists believe that quantitative 26 ultrasound techniques (QU...