Vitamin D Status and Bone and Connective Tissue Turnover in Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) during Hibernation and the Active State

• Peter Vestergaard ,

  * E-mail: p-vest@post4.tele.dk

  Affiliation The Osteoporosis Clinic, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Ole-Gunnar Støen,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

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• Jon E. Swenson,

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway

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• Leif Mosekilde,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital THG, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Lene Heickendorff,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Ole Fröbert

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

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