Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Prevalence and Management of Vitamin D Deficiency among the Pregnant Women and Its Implications: A Global Perspective
(Roopa Basutkar Satyanarayan, PhD, Pooja Sudarsan, PharmD, and Sivasankaran Ponnusankar, PhD, Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Ooty, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India)

Chapter 2. Study of the Role of Vitamins K and D on the Progression of Human Osteosarcoma Based on In Vitro Results
(Evangelia Pantazaka, PhD, Angelos Kaspiris, MD, PhD, Dimitra Melissaridou, MD, Olga D. Savvidou, MD, PhD, Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos, MD, DSc, Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, and others)

Chapter 3. Implication of Vitamin K in Bone Homeostasis and Osseous Metabolism
(Angelos Kaspiris, MD, PhD, Efstathios Chronopoulos MD, PhD, Evangelia Pantazaka, PhD, Olga D. Savvidou, MD, PhD, Elias Vasiliadis MD, PhD, and Elias Panagiotopoulos, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Section of Orthopaedic Research, School of Health Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, and others)

Index