Abstract: The present invention relates to biological markers of metabolic bone diseases or disorders such as osteoporosis and related methods using thereof. The invention further relates to the use of those biomarkers and related material and assays in the diagnosis of subjects at risk of developing such disorders or monitoring the effects of a treatment thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biological markers of metabolic bone diseases or disorders such as osteoporosis and related methods using thereof. The invention further relates to the use of those biomarkers and related material and assays in the diagnosis of subjects at risk of developing such disorders or monitoring the effects of a treatment thereof.

Abstract: A method for producing a coated woven fabric, in which the support material comprises disintegrable chemical weft threads which are subsequently removed without the other threads being affected, method wherein:a first support fabric is produced of which only part of the weft threads are disintegrable, and in a weave in which said disintegrable weft thread is so arranged that, were it to be removed, the result would be, not a woven fabric any longer, but a superposition of three criss-crossed layers of parallel warp threads, one layer of weft threads being squeezed between two layers of warp threads, respectively;then, said support fabric is coated with a coating composition;and finally, the deposited coating is gelled in the right temperature conditions to remove the disintegrable weft thread.

Abstract: A method of coating a fabric material and calendering the material while longitudinally and transversely tensioning the material, the coating being synthetic and being applied to one side of the material, and being heated in a curing oven. Then applying more synthetic material of a similar type to the calendered and heated material and then passing it through another oven and calendering it again before the tensioning is relaxed.