Association of Bone Loss with the Upregulation of Survival-Related Genes and Concomitant Downregulation of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin and Osteoblast Differentiation-Related Genes in the Peripheral Blood of Late Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Women

Figure 2

Protein concentrations of p70-S6K, p21 (a), MMP-9, TGFβ1, and caspase-3 (b) measured by ELISA in the PBMCs from OP patients () compared with the control subjects (). Asterisks indicate significant differences from the healthy control subjects.

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