Conditional Deletion of Gremlin Causes a Transient Increase in Bone Formation and Bone Mass

Gremlin is a glycoprotein that binds bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) 2, 4, and 7, antagonizing their actions. Gremlin opposes BMP effects on osteoblastic differentiation and function in vitro and in vivo, and its overexpression causes osteopenia. To define the function of gremlin in the skeleton, we generated gremlin 1 (grem1) conditional null mice by mating mice where grem1 was flanked by loxP sequences with mice expressing the Cre recombinase under the control of the grem1 null mice bone osteoblastic and bone and bone grem1 conditional null mice of Gremlin by in and osteoblastic the on on and on the of the Gremlin and and in of grem1 in the bone in of BMP and and bone in Gremlin is a glycoprotein that binds bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) 2, 4, and 7, antagonizing their actions. Gremlin opposes BMP effects on osteoblastic differentiation and function in vitro and in vivo, and its overexpression causes osteopenia. 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