Expanding the functional spectrum of vitamin K in bone. Focus on: "Vitamin K promotes mineralization, osteoblast to osteocyte transition, and an anti-catabolic phenotype by {gamma}-carboxylation-dependent and -independent mechanisms"

Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2009 Dec;297(6):C1336-8. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00452.2009. Epub 2009 Oct 14.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • 1-Carboxyglutamic Acid / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Bone and Bones / metabolism
  • Bone and Bones / physiology*
  • Calcification, Physiologic / physiology*
  • Cell Differentiation / drug effects
  • Cell Differentiation / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Metabolism
  • Osteoblasts / cytology*
  • Osteocytes / cytology*
  • Phenotype*
  • Vitamin K / metabolism*

Substances

  • Vitamin K
  • 1-Carboxyglutamic Acid