R Pacifici

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
lab-animal 1997
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research ·doi:10.1359/jbmr.1997.12.6.935

Considerable evidence supports the hypothesis that estrogen prevents bone loss by blocking the bone marrow cell production of pro-osteoclastogenic cytokines. However, controversy remains on the role of candidate factors, such as tumor necro…

nonrandomized-trial 1991
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.88.12.5134

To determine whether mononuclear cell secretory products contribute to the changes in bone turnover that characterize the development of postmenopausal osteoporosis, we evaluated the effects of oophorectomy and subsequent estrogen replaceme…

other 1989
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.86.7.2398

In previous studies, we showed that blood monocyte elaboration of interleukin 1 (IL-1), a known stimulator of bone resorption, was higher in osteoporotic patients with rapid bone turnover than in those with slow turnover and in nonosteoporo…