1. Osteoporosis: Current approaches and future prospects in diagnosis, pathogenesis, and management

   • Lawrence G. Raisz

   Review article Pages: 79 - 89

2. Why do bone strength and "mass" in aging adults become unresponsive to vigorous exercise? Insights of the Utah paradigm

   • Harold M. Frost

   Perspective Pages: 90 - 97

3. Reversibility of alendronate-induced contraction in human osteoclast-like cells formed from bone marrow cells in culture

   • Yasuko Koshihara
   • Shunji Kodama
   • Shunji Karube

   Original articles Pages: 98 - 107

4. Fracture simulation of the femoral bone using the finite-element method: How a fracture initiates and proceeds

   • Toyotsugu Ota
   • Itsuo Yamamoto
   • Rikushi Morita

   Pages: 108 - 112

5. Urinary pyridinoline and deoxypyridinoline as bone metabolic markers in predicting therapeutic effects of estrogen and alfacalcidol in women with osteoporosis

   • Zhiwei Zhan
   • Itsuo Yamamoto
   • Hiroaki Miura

   Pages: 113 - 118

6. The change of bone mineral density in secondary osteoporosis and vertebral fracture incidence

   • Yuji Hirano
   • Hideaki Kishimoto
   • Ryota Teshima

   Pages: 119 - 124

7. Clinical usefulness of serum tartrate-resistant fluoride-sensitive acid phosphatase activity in evaluating bone turnover

   • Mamoru Nakanish1
   • Kousei Yoh
   • Akira Matsuoka

   Pages: 125 - 130

8. Fall of blood ionized calcium on watching a provocative TV program and its prevention by active absorbable algal calcium (AAA Ca)

   • Takuo Fujita
   • Shigeki Ohgitani
   • Masakatsu Nomura

   Pages: 131 - 136

9. Growth and bone mineral density in a child with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets: Early response to treatment

   • Toshihiro Sugiyama
   • Hiroshi Tanaka
   • Shinya Kawai

   Case report Pages: 137 - 140

10. Abstracts at the 8th Chugoku-Shikoku Meeting for Bone Mineral Metabolism

    Abstracts Pages: 141 - 149