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Bone returns the favour

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There are well-established links between the reproductive system, metabolism and skeletal growth. But it comes as a surprise that the skeleton — more specifically, the bone hormone osteocalcin — modulates fertility.

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Figure 1: A link between the skeleton and reproduction.

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  1. and in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sonya M. Schuh-Huerta and Renee A. Reijo Pera are at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

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Schuh-Huerta, S., Pera, R. Bone returns the favour. Nature 472, 46–47 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/472046a

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