Deficiency of Thrombospondin-4 in Mice Does Not Affect Skeletal Growth or Bone Mass Acquisition, but Causes a Transient Reduction of Articular Cartilage Thickness

• Anke Jeschke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anke Jeschke, Martin Bonitz

  Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Martin Bonitz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anke Jeschke, Martin Bonitz

  Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Maciej Simon,

  Affiliations Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany, Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Stephanie Peters,

  Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Wolfgang Baum,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany

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• Georg Schett,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute of Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany

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• Wolfgang Ruether,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Andreas Niemeier,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Thorsten Schinke,

  Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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• Michael Amling

  * E-mail: amling@uke.uni-hamburg.de

  Affiliation Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany

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