1. Following in a proud tradition of leadership

   • Yoshiki Seino

   EDITORIAL Pages: 185 - 185

2. Prevalence and clinical features of Paget's disease of bone in Japan

   • Jun Hashimoto
   • Ikko Ohno
   • The Japanese Committee on Clinical Guidelines of Diagnosis and Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone of the Japan Osteoporosis Society, Japan

   SPECIAL REPORT Pages: 186 - 190

3. Involvement of Notch signaling in initiation of prechondrogenic condensation and nodule formation in limb bud micromass cultures

   • Ryoji Fujimaki
   • Yoshiaki Toyama
   • Ken-ichi Tezuka

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 191 - 198

4. High-turnover osteoporosis is induced by cyclosporin A in rats

   • Chie Wada
   • Masatoshi Kataoka
   • Toshihiko Nagata

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 199 - 205

5. Combined intervention of dietary soybean proteins and swim training: effects on bone metabolism in ovariectomized rats

   • Hélène Figard
   • Fabienne Mougin
   • Alain Berthelot

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 206 - 212

6. The status of biochemical parameters in varying degrees of vitamin D deficiency

   • Sima Hashemipour
   • Bagher Larijani
   • Arash Hossein-Nezhad

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 213 - 218

7. The sample size required for intervention studies on fracture prevention can be decreased by using a bone resorption marker in the inclusion criteria: prospective study of a subset of the Nagano Cohort, on behalf of the Adequate Treatment of Osteoporosis (A-TOP) Research Group

   • Masataka Shiraki
   • Tatsuhiko Kuroda
   • Kuniyoshi Makino

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 219 - 225

8. Assessment of linkage and association of 13 genetic loci with bone mineral density

   • Helen H.L. Lau
   • Mandy Y.M. Ng
   • Annie W.C. Kung

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 226 - 234

9. Maternal and early life influences on calcaneal ultrasound parameters and metacarpal morphometry in 7- to 9-year-old children

   • Lisa Micklesfield
   • Naomi Levitt
   • Estelle Lambert

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 235 - 242

10. Tamoxifen flare hypercalcemia: an additional support for gallium nitrate usage

    • Govinda Pillai Arumugam
    • Sengoden Sundravel
    • Panchanadham Sachdanandam

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 243 - 247

11. Bovine deciduous dentine is more susceptible to osteoclastic resorption than permanent dentine: results of quantitative analyses

    • Bobby John Varghese
    • Kazuhiro Aoki
    • Yuzo Takagi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 248 - 254

12. Bisphosphonate pretreatment attenuates hungry bone syndrome postoperatively in subjects with primary hyperparathyroidism

    • I-Te Lee
    • Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu
    • Dee Pei

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 255 - 258