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Conditional deletion of gremlin causes a transient increase in bone formation and bone mass.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Oct 2007
Gazzerro Elisabetta, Smerdel-Ramoya Anna, Zanotti Stefano, Stadmeyer Lisa, Durant Deena, Economides Aris N, Canalis Ernesto
Abstract excerpt
Gremlin is a glycoprotein that binds bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) 2, 4, and 7, antagonizing their actions. Gremlin opposes BMP effects on osteoblastic differentiation and function in vitro and in vivo, and its overexpression causes osteopenia. To define the function of gremlin in the skeleton, we generated gremlin 1 (grem1) conditional null mice by mating mice where grem1 was flanked by lox(P) sequences...
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