%0 Journal Article
%T Changes in bone density and bone quality caused by single fasting for 96 hours in rats
%A Kenji Kugino
%A Yuko Hisatomi
%J Archive of "PeerJ".
%D 2019
%R 10.7717/peerj.6161
%X Young women occasionally engage in dietary restrictions accompanied by fasting for the purpose of losing weight, but such restrictions have various effects on body functions. The recent increase in the number of people suffering from osteoporosis has become a major social problem mainly in industrialized countries.Therefore, we think it is important to understand the effects of fasting on bone vulnerability, especially to bone quality
%K Fasting
%K Bone quality
%K Bone density
%K Contrast enhanced micro-CT
%K The minimum cross-sectional moment
%K The polar moment
%K Rat
%K Lumbar vertebrae
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330036/