Sentences with phrase «osteocalcin affects»

Produced by our bones, osteocalcin affects how we metabolize sugar and fat.

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To find out if this effect on testosterone production might affect mice's fertility, the team knocked out the gene for osteocalcin in a group of the rodents.

But the idea that bone itself can affect other tissues took root only a few years ago with the discovery of osteocalcin.

Osteocalcin differentially regulates beta cell and adipocyte gene expression and affects the development of metabolic diseases in wild - type mice

Ferron M, Hinoi E, Karsenty G, Ducy P. Osteocalcin differentially regulates beta cell and adipocyte gene expression and affects the development of metabolic diseases in wild - type mice.

For example, both increasing or decreasing the rate of bone resorption affects energy balance and testosterone, apparently via undercarboxylated osteocalcin, showing that departures from «normal» in both directions are effective, and thus that «normal» is within the effective range.