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Constitutive activity of the osteoblast Ca2+-sensing receptor promotes loss of cancellous bone.
Endocrinology - 1 Jul 2007
Dvorak Melita M, Chen Tsui-Hua, Orwoll Benjamin, Garvey Caitlin, Chang Wenhan, Bikle Daniel D, Shoback Dolores M
Abstract excerpt
Changes in extracellular [Ca2+] modulate the function of bone cells in vitro via the extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor (CaR). Within bone microenvironments, resorption increases extracellular [Ca2+] locally. To determine whether enhanced CaR signaling could modulate remodeling and thereby bone mass in vivo, we generated transgenic mice with a constitutively active mutant CaR (Act-CaR) targeted to their mature...
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