The Mammalian System For Controlling Bone Remodelling Also Regulates Fever

The so-called RANK protein and the molecule that binds to it, the RANK ligand or RANKL, form a focus of the work of Josef Penninger, director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna. In 1999 his group deleted the RANKL gene from mice and showed that the RANK/RANKL system was the “master regulator” governing bone loss (Kong et al. 1999 Nature 402, 304-309).

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