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Positive Regulation of Adult Bone Formation by Osteoblast-Specific Transcription Factor Osterix†‡

  1. Wook-Young Baek1,2,
  2. Min-A Lee1,2,
  3. Ji Won Jung3,
  4. Shin-Yoon Kim3,4,
  5. Haruhiko Akiyama5,
  6. Benoit de Crombrugghe6,
  7. Jung-Eun Kim1,*

Article first published online: 29 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.081248

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Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volume 24, Issue 6, pages 1055–1065, June 2009

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Baek, W.-Y., Lee, M.-A., Jung, J. W., Kim, S.-Y., Akiyama, H., de Crombrugghe, B. and Kim, J.-E. (2009), Positive Regulation of Adult Bone Formation by Osteoblast-Specific Transcription Factor Osterix. J Bone Miner Res, 24: 1055–1065. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.081248

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  1. 1

    Department of Molecular Medicine, Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

  2. 2

    These authors contributed equally to this work

  3. 3

    Skeletal Disease Genome Research Center, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Korea

  4. 4

    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

  5. 5

    Department of Orthopaedics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  6. 6

    Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

*Address correspondence to: Jung-Eun Kim, PhD, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, 101 Dongin-dong, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-422, Korea

  1. †

    The authors state that they have no conflicts of interest.

  2. ‡

    Published online on December 29, 2008

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 DEC 2009
  2. Article first published online: 29 DEC 2008
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 22 DEC 2008
  4. Manuscript Revised: 17 OCT 2008
  5. Manuscript Received: 5 AUG 2008

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