title: [Osteocalcin in infants with rickets].
abstract: Infants afflicted with rickets demonstrate a reduction in the blood content of vitamin K-dependent protein, osteocalcin, most pronounced in disease of medium gravity, in its calcipenic and phosphopenic varieties. It has been established that there is an inverse correlation between osteocalcin content and the level of parathyroid hormone and a direct correlation between osteocalcin content and the concentration of total and ionized calcium and calcitonin in the blood. It is suggested that measurement of blood osteocalcin in children may serve a diagnostic marker of metabolic disorders and mineralization of osseous tissue.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Luk'ianova
authors.forename: Iu G
authors.initials: IuG
authors.lastname: Antipkin
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Omel'chenko
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Iakovlev
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Makeev
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015675:Osteocalcin / Q000097:blood* / Q000172:deficiency; D010710:Phosphates / Q000097:blood; D012279:Rickets / Q000097:blood* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D010710:Phosphates; D015675:Osteocalcin; D002118:Calcium
vernacular_title: Osteokal'tsin pri rakhite u deteĭ rannego vozrasta.