What are the major effects of parathyroid hormone?

What is the primary difference between endochondral ossification and intramembranous ossification?

a. What nutritional factors are essential for normal bone growth and maintenance?

b. What hormonal factors are necessary for normal bone growth and maintenance?

Which three organs or tissues interact to assist in the regulation of calcium ion concentration in body fluids?

The process of bone growth at the epiphyseal cartilage is similar to (a) intramembranous ossification, (b) endochondral ossification, (c) the process of osteopenia, (d) the process of healing a fracture, (e) the process of calcification.

The vitamins essential for normal adult bone maintenance and repair are (a) A and E, (b) C and D3, (c) B and E, (d) B complex and K.

Compare and contrast controls of bone remodeling exerted by hormones and by mechanical and gravitational forces, including the purpose of each control system and changes in bone architecture that might occur.

Formation of the bony callus in fracture repair is followed bya. hematoma formationb. fibrocartilaginous callus formationc. bone remodelingd. formation of granulation tissue.