Bone morphogenetic protein-4 regulates i
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Renata C. Pereira; Sheila Rydziel; Ernesto Canalis
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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During development, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) induce the differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor cells to enter into the osteoblastic lineage, and BMPs enhance osteoblastic function. BMPs and noggin, a specific binding protein that blocks BMP actions, are expressed by osteoblastic cells b