Potassium citrate prevents increased osteoclastogenesis resulting from acidic conditions: Implication for the treatment of postmenopausal bone loss

• Donatella Granchi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: donatella.granchi@ior.it

  Affiliation Orthopedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7225-0023

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• Elena Torreggiani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Torreggiani, Annamaria Massa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Universtity of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

  Affiliation Orthopedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

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• Annamaria Massa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Torreggiani, Annamaria Massa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Orthopedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

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• Renata Caudarella,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Villalba Hospital, GVM Care and Research, Bologna, Italy

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• Gemma Di Pompo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Orthopedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Nicola Baldini

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Orthopedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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