This review discusses the suitability and advantages of teleost fish for studying underlying
mechanisms of normal and pathological development and mineralization of vertebrate …

The gilthead seabream, one of the most important species in Mediterranean aquaculture,
with an increasing status of exploitation in terms of production volume and aquafarming …

Bone disorders affect millions of people worldwide and treatments currently available often
produce undesirable secondary effects or have limited efficacy. It is therefore of the utmost …

The hormone αKlotho regulates lifespan in mice, as knockouts die early of what appears to
be accelerated aging due to hyperphosphatemia and soft tissue calcification. In contrast, the …

Doxorubicin is a widely used chemotherapeutic drug known to induce bone loss. The
mechanism behind doxorubicin-mediated bone loss is unclear, but oxidative stress has …

Incorporation of dietary peptides has been correlated with decreased presence of skeletal
abnormalities in marine larvae. In an attempt to clarify the effect of smaller protein fractions …

Abstract BMP2, BMP4 and BMP16 form a subfamily of bone morphogenetic proteins acting
as pleiotropic growth factors during development and as bone inducers during …

Among all cellular life on earth, with the exception of yeasts, fungi, and some prokaryotes,
VKOR family homologs are ubiquitously encoded in nuclear genomes, suggesting ancient …

A new continuous cell line designated as SGA has been developed from the skin tissue of
the freshwater mosquitofish Gambusia affinis. The cell line grew well in Leibovitz's L-15 …

During the last decades, adipogenesis has become an emerging field of study in
aquaculture due to the relevance of the adipose tissue in many physiological processes and …