Meanings
adjectiveantiosteogenic (not comparable)
- not comparableInhibiting osteogenesis.
A possible explanation to the complex skeletal phenotype of ob/ob animals maybe a balance between anabolic actions of peripheral leptin and antiosteogenic actions of hypothalamic leptin.
2016 January 28, “Lack of α 2C -Adrenoceptor Results in Contrasting Phenotypes of Long Bones and Vertebra and Prevents the Thyrotoxicosis-Induced Osteopenia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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