Some experts say American children in general consume far less calcium than they should to build healthy adult bones.

Activity during the adolescent growth period seems to exert a greater influence on the size and shape of adult bones than exercise later in life.

Whether treatments from embryonic or adult bone marrow stem cells will prove more effective remains to be seen.

It may be possible to have adult bone marrow cells differentiate into heart muscle cells.

In biology, normal adult bones possess a lamellar structure which may be disrupted by some diseases.

Stem cells, which are also found in adult bone marrow, generate nearly all the specialized cells of the body.

Another crucial factor in stemming adult bone loss is having enough vitamin D in its activated form.

Most of the adult bone marrow consists of blood cells in various stages of differentiation.

With age, more and more of it is converted to the yellow type; only around half of adult bone marrow is red.

Bone fractures in children are different than adult bone fractures because a child's bones are still growing.

Initial work focused on using stem cells taken from adult bone marrow to help regenerate heart tissue damaged during heart attacks.

Whitlockite can be found at many different sites in the human body, but is particularly concentrated in calcified tissues, such as embryonic and adult bone.

It is an allogenic stem therapy based on mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult bone marrow.

Unlike B-1a B cells, the B-1b subtype can be generated from precursors in the adult bone marrow.

Osteoporosis: A value for BMD 2.5 or greater standard deviations below that of the average peak young adult bone mass.

As growth nears conclusion and attainment of adult height, bones begin to approach the size and shape of adult bones.

They concluded, based on a study of the embryos and adult bones near the nest, that this was a new genus and species of the hypsilophotontid family.

Because nearly 90 percent of adult bone mass is established by the end of this age range, the nation's youth stand in the midst of a calcium crisis.

He is also coordinator of the BMBF consortium "iPS and adult bone marrow cells for cardiac repair".

Physician-scientists have explored the clinical application of many types of adult stem and regenerative cells, including those derived from adult bone marrow and adipose tissue.

Human remains have been found around the site including sword-marked adult bones and the cleaved skull of a child, indicating that the inhabitants were trapped and attacked within the settlement.

Adult bone marrow stem cells are the progenitor cell line of choice being utilized in the SCIPIO trial discussed in the "Overview" section.

The Cells Some Advantages Over Bone Marrow Cord blood's advantages over adult bone marrow include an easier donor process.

However, peripheral DXA machines do not yet have a uniform reference standard for the normal peak young adult bone mass that can apply to all machines and all manufacturers.

Phase III clinical trials expected to end in second-quarter 2008 were conducted by Osiris Therapeutics using their in-development product Prochymal, derived from adult bone marrow.