Endocrine Abstracts

Ovariectomy of immature female rats, results in significant decrease of trabecular bone volume and in cortical bone thickness. Previously we found that estradiol-17β (E2) restored bone structure of ovariectomized female rats (Ovx) to values obtained in intact sham-operated female rats. E2 also selectively stimulated creatine kinase specific activity (CK) a hormonal-genomic activity marker. In the present study, we compared the effects of E2</sub...