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Inactivation of estrogen receptor α in bone-forming cells induces bone loss in female mice.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Feb 2013
Määttä Jorma A, Büki Kalman G, Gu Guoliang, Alanne Maria H, Vääräniemi Jukka, Liljenbäck Heidi, Poutanen Matti, Härkönen Pirkko, Väänänen Kalervo
Abstract excerpt
The role of the estrogen receptor α (ERα) in bone-forming cells is incompletely understood at present. To examine the in vivo effects of ERα in these cells, we generated a mouse strain in which the ERα gene is inactivated in osteoblasts via osteocalcin promoter-regulated cyclic recombinase (Cre) activity (ERα(ΔOB/ΔOB)). This enabled micro-computed tomography- and histomorphometry-based analysis of ERα-mediated...
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