Sentences with phrase «lacking osteocalcin»

Mice lacking osteocalcin also had an excess of luteinizing hormone (LH), a pituitary hormone responsible for increasing testosterone production.

In 2013, a team led by Gerard Karsenty, the Paul A. Marks Professor and chair of the department of genetics and development at Columbia University Medical Center, showed that mice lacking osteocalcin have major cognitive defects.

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To find out how, he turned to an engineered strain of mice lacking a gene for what was then a mysterious protein called osteocalcin, which is produced by osteoblasts.