Osteopontin: Relation between Adipose Tissue and Bone Homeostasis

• Main Authors: Carolina De Fusco (Author), Antonietta Messina (Author), Vincenzo Monda (Author), Emanuela Viggiano (Author), Fiorenzo Moscatelli (Author), Anna Valenzano (Author), Teresa Esposito (Author), Chieffi Sergio (Author), Giuseppe Cibelli (Author), Marcellino Monda (Author), Giovanni Messina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Osteopontin (OPN) is a multifunctional protein mainly associated with bone metabolism and remodeling. Besides its physiological functions, OPN is implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of disease states, such as obesity and osteoporosis. Importantly, during the last decades obesity and osteopor...