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Estrogen Deficiency and Connective Tissues

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Women’s Health in Menopause

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Tissue formed by the cells of the mesoderm is known as mesenchyme and it is from the mesenchyme that the connective tissue of the body develops. Quantitatively some 80% of connective tissue is found in the dermis of the skin and in the bone with the amount of collagen being shared almost equally between them.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Luke’s Hospital University of Malta Medical School, Gwardamangia, Malta

    M. Brincat, Y. Muscat Baron, R. Galea & A. Buhagiar

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    P. G. Crosignani

  2. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    R. Paoletti

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    P. M. Sarrel

  4. Department of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    N. K. Wenger

  5. Clinica Menopausa, Milan, Italy

    M. Meschia (Assistant Editor) (Assistant Editor)

  6. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    M. Soma (Assistant Editor) (Assistant Editor)

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Brincat, M., Baron, Y.M., Galea, R., Buhagiar, A. (1994). Estrogen Deficiency and Connective Tissues. In: Crosignani, P.G., Paoletti, R., Sarrel, P.M., Wenger, N.K., Meschia, M., Soma, M. (eds) Women’s Health in Menopause. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1024-2_27

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