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Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Dec 15;137(2):10.1007/s10549-012-2374-0. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2374-0

Table 1.

Common biomarkers of bone homeostasis

Markers of bone formation
 Serum total alkaline phosphatase
 Serum bone-specific alkaline phosphatase
 Serum OC
 Serum P1NP/procollagen type I C-terminal propeptide
Markers of bone resorption
 Urinary hydroxyproline
 Urinary total pyridinoline
 Urinary free deoxypyridinoline
 Urinary collagen type I cross-linked N-telopeptide
 Urinary or serum CTX
 Bone sialoprotein
 Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b