• Adverse effects of androgen deprivation therapy in patients with prostate cancer: Focus on muscle and bone health 

      Bargiota A., Oeconomou A., Zachos I., Samarinas M., Pisters L.L., Tzortzis V. (2020)
      Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the most effective systemic treatment for prostate cancer and can be succeeded either surgically or pharmaceutically. Both approaches lead to hypogonadism with a large variety of adverse ...
    • Bovine colostrum supplementation improves bone metabolism in an osteoporosis-induced animal model 

      Kydonaki E.K., Freitas L., Fonseca B.M., Reguengo H., Simón C.R., Bastos A.R., Fernandes E.M., Canadas R.F., Oliveira J.M., Correlo V.M., Reis R.L., Vliora M., Gkiata P., Koutedakis Y., Ntina G., Pinto R., Carrillo A.E., Marques F., Amorim T. (2021)
      Osteoporosis is characterized by bone loss. The present study aims to investigate the effects of bovine colostrum (BC) on bone metabolism using ovariectomized (OVX) and orchidec-tomized (ORX) rat models. Twenty-seven-week-old ...
    • Development of Convolutional Neural Networks to identify bone metastasis for prostate cancer patients in bone scintigraphy 

      Papandrianos N., Papageorgiou E.I., Anagnostis A. (2020)
      Objective: The main aim of this work is to build a robust Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm that efficiently and quickly classifies bone scintigraphy images, by determining the presence or absence of prostate ...
    • Flash proton radiotherapy spares normal epithelial and mesenchymal tissues while preserving sarcoma response 

      Velalopoulou A., Karagounis I.V., Cramer G.M., Kim M.M., Skoufos G., Goia D., Hagan S., Verginadis I.I., Shoniyozov K., Chiango J., Cerullo M., Varner K., Yao L., Qin L., Hatzigeorgiou A.G., Minn A.J., Putt M., Lanza M., Assenmacher C.-A., Radaelli E., Huck J., Diffenderfer E., Dong L., Metz J., Koumenis C., Cengel K.A., Maity A., Busch T.M. (2021)
      In studies of electron and proton radiotherapy, ultrahigh dose rates of FLASH radiotherapy appear to produce fewer toxicities than standard dose rates while maintaining local tumor control. FLASHproton radiotherapy (F-PRT) ...
    • Longitudinal Adaptations of Bone Mass, Geometry, and Metabolism in Adolescent Male Athletes: The PRO-BONE Study 

      Vlachopoulos D., Barker A.R., Ubago-Guisado E., Fatouros I.G., Knapp K.M., Williams C.A., Gracia-Marco L. (2017)
      Adolescence is a crucial period for bone development, and exercise can enhance bone acquisition during this period of life. However, it is not known how the different loading sports practiced can affect bone acquisition ...
    • Rare SLC13A1 variants associate with intervertebral disc disorder highlighting role of sulfate in disc pathology 

      Bjornsdottir G., Stefansdottir L., Thorleifsson G., Sulem P., Norland K., Ferkingstad E., Oddsson A., Zink F., Lund S.H., Nawaz M.S., Bragi Walters G., Skuladottir A.T., Gudjonsson S.A., Einarsson G., Halldorsson G.H., Bjarnadottir V., Sveinbjornsson G., Helgadottir A., Styrkarsdottir U., Gudmundsson L.J., Pedersen O.B., Hansen T.F., Werge T., Banasik K., Troelsen A., Skou S.T., Thørner L.W., Erikstrup C., Nielsen K.R., Mikkelsen S., Andersen S., Brunak S., Burgdorf K., Hjalgrim H., Jemec G., Jennum P., Johansson P.I., Nielsen K.R., Nyegaard M., Bruun M.T., Pedersen O.B., Dinh K.M., Sørensen E., Ostrowski S., Johansson P.I., Gudbjartsson D., Stefánsson H., Þorsteinsdóttir U., Larsen M.A.H., Didriksen M., Sækmose S., Zeggini E., Hatzikotoulas K., Southam L., Gilly A., Barysenka A., van Meurs J.B.J., Boer C.G., Uitterlinden A.G., Styrkársdóttir U., Stefánsdóttir L., Jonsson H., Ingvarsson T., Esko T., Mägi R., Teder-Laving M., Ikegawa S., Terao C., Takuwa H., Meulenbelt I., Coutinho de Almeida R., Kloppenburg M., Tuerlings M., Slagboom P.E., Nelissen R.R.G.H.H., Valdes A.M., Mangino M., Tsezou A., Zengini E., Alexiadis G., Babis G.C., Cheah K.S.E., Wu T.T., Samartzis D., Cheung J.P.Y., Sham P.C., Kraft P., Kang J.H., Hveem K., Zwart J.-A., Luetge A., Skogholt A.H., Johnsen M.B., Thomas L.F., Winsvold B., Gabrielsen M.E., Lee M.T.M., Zhang Y., Lietman S.A., Shivakumar M., Smith G.D., Tobias J.H., Hartley A., Gaunt T.R., Zheng J., Wilkinson J.M., Steinberg J., Morris A.P., Jonsdottir I., Bjornsson A., Olafsson I.H., Ulfarsson E., Blondal J., Vikingsson A., Brunak S., Ostrowski S.R., Ullum H., Thorsteinsdottir U., Stefansson H., Gudbjartsson D.F., Thorgeirsson T.E., Stefansson K., DBDS Genetic Consortium, GO Consortium (2022)
      Back pain is a common and debilitating disorder with largely unknown underlying biology. Here we report a genome-wide association study of back pain using diagnoses assigned in clinical practice; dorsalgia (119,100 cases, ...
    • Vascularised bone grafts for the management of non-union 

      Soucacos, P. N.; Dailiana, Z.; Beris, A. E.; Johnson, E. O. (2006)
      Non-union of the long bones may have severe consequences, particularly when combined with other post-traumatic sequelae, such as tendon adhesions, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and infection, among others. In these cases, ...