The novel COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the world's population differently: mostly in the
presence of conditions such as aging, diabetes and hypertension the virus triggers a lethal …

Humans with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection present some
evidence suggestive of iron accumulation. Ferritin concentrations increase with HIV disease …

Chronic diseases pose a severe burden to modern National Health Systems. Individuals
nowadays have a far more extended lifespan than in the past, but healthy living was only …

It has been suggested that iron-deficient rats have lower bone mass than iron-replete
animals, but a clear association between bone and iron repletion has not been …

Osteoclasts are cells involved in bone reabsorbing and hence in postmenopausal bone
loss. There is no evidence of increased in vitro spontaneous osteoclast formation in …

This paper studies the effect of oral risedronate on osteoclast precursors, osteoclast
formation, and cytokine production in 25 osteoporotic women. Risedronate is effective in …

Microvascular murine endothelial cells lines transformed by middle T oncogene of polyoma
virus maintain the biological characteristics of nontransformed microvascular endothelial …

Fracture healing is a complex process that involves several cell types; as a previous report
suggested an increase in osteoblast (OB) precursors in peripheral blood during this process …

Background Perturbation of iron metabolism, especially the increase of serum ferritin levels,
is often associated with both inflammation and hypertension. Changes in iron availability …

Objective Since a previous study showed an inverse correlation between high density
lipoproteins (HDL) and bone mineral density (BMD), we searched for a possible relationship …