[Osteocalcin in infants with rickets].

Autor: Luk'ianova EM, Antipkin IuG, Omel'chenko LI, Iakovlev AA, Makeev SM
Jazyk: ruština
Zdroj: Pediatriia [Pediatriia] 1990 (1), pp. 36-40.
Abstrakt: Infants afflicted with rickets demonstrate a reduction in the blood content of vitamin K-dependent protein, osteocalcin, most pronounced in disease of medium gravity, in its calcipenic and phosphopenic varieties. It has been established that there is an inverse correlation between osteocalcin content and the level of parathyroid hormone and a direct correlation between osteocalcin content and the concentration of total and ionized calcium and calcitonin in the blood. It is suggested that measurement of blood osteocalcin in children may serve a diagnostic marker of metabolic disorders and mineralization of osseous tissue.
Databáze: MEDLINE