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Progesterone stimulates proliferation and differentiation of osteoprogenitor cells in bone cell populations derived from adult female but not from adult male rats.
Bone - 1 Jan 1997
Ishida Y, Heersche J N
Abstract excerpt
We examined the effects of the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (Dex) and of the sex steroids progesterone (Prog) and testosterone (Testo) on proliferation and differentiation of progenitors for osteoblasts, adipocytes, and macrophages in cell populations derived from lumbar vertebrae of adult male and female rats. To assay for these progenitors, we used a previously described colony assay, where...
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