2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Therapies that Target Schnurri-3 Hold Promise for Osteoporosis

Now, in conjunction with a pharmaceutical company, her lab is in search of small molecules that inhibit the activity of Schnurri-3 to prevent its bone-mass-reducing effects. Using specially designed assays, they hope to find several such molecules.

“Within a few months,” she said, there will hopefully be “more to say about what some of those molecules might be.”

Thomas R. Collins is a medical writer based in Florida.

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