statement of problem: it is not known whether endochondral and intramembranous bones have distinct biological characteristics. octacalcium phosphate (ocp), a hydroxyapatite precursor, has been reported to stimulate bone formation after being implanted in parietal bone defects of rats. purpose: the present study was designed to investigate the response of endochondral and intramembranous bones t...

osteogenesis imperfecta (oi) is a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, often from little or no apparent cause. in this article, we present a patient suffering from oi, who had concomitant active beh ç et’s disease(bd)with repeated oro-genital ulcers, skin postular eruptions and severe recurrent bilateral uveitis. this patient, is, to our knowledge the first reported case i...

The Imperfect in Romance is used in an array of constructions: progressives, habituals, generics and counterfactual conditionals. The first three all share hallmarks of the Romance Imperfect: they describe something ongoing, in the past, and which requires contextual framing. Counterfactual uses, however, do not, and thus present an important challenge for a unified semantics of the Imperfect. ...