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Prevention and Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

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In the last 4 years a body of information has been accumulating to confirm Professor Klotz’s original concept that estrogens exert their beneficial effect on bone by way of calcitonin1. Confirmatory studies from the laboratories of Milhaud2 in Paris and Maclntyre3 in London give strong support to Professor Klotz’s theory.

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  1. Cattedra di Patologia Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Univeristà di Roma, V. le Regina Elena, 324-00161, Roma, Italy

    N. Pasetto

  2. Istituto di Farmacologia, Università di Milano, Via Vanvitelli, 32-Milano, Italy

    R. Paoletti

  3. Department of Health, State of New York, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, 14263, Buffalo, New York, USA

    J. L. Ambrus

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Gordan, G.S., Vaughan, C. (1980). Prevention and Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. In: Pasetto, N., Paoletti, R., Ambrus, J.L. (eds) The Menopause and Postmenopause. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7230-1_18

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