1. Smad proteins: signal transducers for BMP and TGF-β/activin

   • Kohei Miyazono

   Review article Pages: 133 - 138

2. Diagnostic criteria of primary osteoporosis

   • Hajime Orimo
   • Youichi Sugioka
   • Yasuo Oh-hashi

   Special report Pages: 139 - 150

3. Requirement of osteoblastic cells for the fusion of preosteoclasts

   • Masamichi Takami
   • Je-Tae Woo
   • Kazuo Nagai

   Original articles Pages: 151 - 157

4. Effect of Staphylococcus aureus extracellular proteinaceous fraction in an isolated osteoclastic resorption assay

   • M. Arora
   • N. Shah
   • A. Boyde

   Pages: 158 - 161

5. Estimation of the effects of prednisolone on bone metabolism in rats by biochemical markers

   • Shintaro Koyama
   • Kazuhiro Kushida
   • Tetsuo Inoue

   Pages: 162 - 169

6. The role of hepatocyte growth factor in growth plate cartilage

   • Akitoshi Jikko
   • Kazuo Yamashita
   • Kojiro Kurisu

   Pages: 170 - 177

7. Effects of the existence of nitric oxide and the degradation of extracellular matrix on CD44 mRNA expression in cultured chondrocytes

   • Tomohiko Onodera
   • Tamotsu Toba
   • Saburo Horiuchi

   Pages: 178 - 185

8. Calcium supplementation and parathyroid hormone

   • Shigeki Ohgitani
   • Yoshio Fujii
   • Takuo Fujita

   Pages: 186 - 189

9. Newborn bone mineral density and health care during pregnancy

   • Yan Lin Wang
   • Hanwen Wu
   • Jacques LeBlanc

   Pages: 190 - 192