Sentences with phrase «production of osteocalcin»

A cup of most greens provides several times the minimum recommendation for vitamin K, a vitamin needed for the production of osteocalcin, a protein essential for bone health.

Like matrix Gla protein, vitamin K is essential to increased production of osteocalcin, a protein hormone important to bone metabolism and insulin sensitivity.

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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.

Similarly, in the later experiment concerning fertility, only small doses of uncarboxylated osteocalcin enhanced testosterone production.

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