"The fact that bone cells regulate energy metabolism, and that they do it through osteocalcin, is a major finding," he says in the article. "This could also have important ramifications for cardiovascular disease because of the effect on metabolic syndrome." <\/p>\nGraves’ recent research has focused on how diabetes interferes with bone formation and enhances periodontal disease. Osteocalcin, a protein found in bone and dentin, is now thought to play a hormonal role in increasing insulin production. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Dana T. Graves, professor of periodontology and oral biology, discusses recent discoveries regarding the influence of bone cells on energy metabolism leading to type 2 diabetes in this week’s issue of Science News."The fact that bone cells regulate energy metabolism, and that they do it through osteocalcin, is a major finding," he says in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13840,13841,13838],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19214,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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