1. Potential roles of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) in skeletal repair and regeneration

   • Takanobu Nakase
   • Hideki Yoshikawa

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 425 - 433

2. The kidney and bone metabolism: Nephrologists' point of view

   • Masafumi Fukagawa
   • Yasuhiro Hamada
   • Motoko Tanaka

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 434 - 438

3. Soybean isoflavones preserve bone mass in hindlimb-unloaded mice

   • Fumie Sugiyama
   • Jian Wu
   • Yoshiko Ishimi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 439 - 446

4. Expression of MT1-MMP during deciduous tooth resorption in odontoclasts

   • Busayarat Linsuwanont-Santiwong
   • Yuzo Takagi
   • Hitoyata Shimokawa

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 447 - 453

5. Murine osteoblasts respond to LPS and IFN-γ similarly to macrophages

   • Kenta Maruyama
   • Gen-ichiro Sano
   • Koichi Matsuo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 454 - 460

6. Short-term supplementation of COX-2 inhibitor suppresses bone turnover in gonad-intact middle-aged male rats

   • Chwan-Li Shen
   • James K. Yeh
   • XingJia Wang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 461 - 466

7. Skeletal effects of short-term exposure to dexamethasone and response to risedronate treatment studied in vivo in rabbits by magnetic resonance micro-imaging and spectroscopy

   • Masaya Takahashi
   • Punam K. Saha
   • Felix W. Wehrli

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 467 - 475

8. The effect of vigorous physical activity and risk of wrist fracture over 25 years in a low-risk survivor cohort

   • Donna L. Thorpe
   • Synnove F. Knutsen
   • Gary E. Fraser

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 476 - 483

9. Short-term and long-term site-specific effects of tennis playing on trabecular and cortical bone at the distal radius

   • Gaële Ducher
   • Nicolas Tournaire
   • Daniel Courteix

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 484 - 490

10. Effects of alfacalcidol alone or in combination with elcatonin on incidence of osteoporotic vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with spondylosis

    • Naohisa Miyakoshi
    • Yoichi Shimada
    • Eiji Itoi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 491 - 497

11. α_Vβ₃ Integrin ligands enhance volume-sensitive calcium influx in mechanically stretched osteocytes

    • Akimitsu Miyauchi
    • Masayuki Gotoh
    • Yuko Mikuni-Takagaki

    RAPID COMMUNICATION Pages: 498 - 504

12. Novel, high-frequency, low-strain mechanical loading for premenopausal women with low bone mass: early findings

    • Belinda R. Beck
    • Kyla Kent
    • Robert Marcus

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 505 - 507