Abstract BACKGROUND Bone biochemical markers have been used in dynamic studies of bone metabolism, and, for accurate interpretation of measured marker levels, it is essential to have information of extra-skeletal metabolism. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to investigate if the circulating C-telopeptides of type I collagen (CTX) was subject to hepatic extraction. […]
Lack of hepatic metabolism of C-telopeptides of type I collagen.
April 1, 2006
Clin Chim Acta