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NATURE
Volume 423, Issue 6937, Pages 349-355Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature01660
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The skeleton is an efficient 'servo' (feedback-controlled/steady-state) system that continuously integrates signals and responses which sustain its functions of delivering calcium while maintaining strength. In many individuals, bone mass homeostasis starts failing in midlife, leading to bone loss, osteoporosis and debilitating fractures. Recent advances, spearheaded by genetic information, offer the opportunity to stop or reverse this downhill course.
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