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OPG
(redirected from Osteoprotegerin)

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OPGOntario Power Generation (Canada)
OPGOsteoprotegerin
OPGOnline Policy Group
OPGOldroyd Publishing Group (UK)
OPGOrthopantomography
OPGOld Portuguese
OPGOffice of Projects and Grants (Collumbia University)
OPGOrganizational Process Group
OPGOcean Physics Group (various locations)
OPGOperations Planners Group
OPGOrder Processing Guideline (Hewlett-Packard)
OPGOperational Performance Goals
OPGOperation Planning Group


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It also prevents bone breakdown by limiting parathyroid hormone, the hormone primarily responsible for releasing calcium from bone into the bloodstream, and by stimulating osteoprotegerin, the potent inhibitor of bone restoration.
Serum levels of receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappaB ligand (RANKL) and osteoprotegerin (OPG) were measured.
The intratympanic corticosteroids might have produced a permanent hearing loss as a result of their effect on osteoprotegerin in the inner ear.
 
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