Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma Activity in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Regulates Endochondral Bone, Angiogenesis, and B Lymphopoiesis

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This research was supported in part by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC to LEP) and the Operational Infrastructure Support Program from the Victorian Government (to St. Vincent's Institute). LEP and NAS were supported by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowships. We thank the staff at the St Vincent's Bioresource Centre for caring for the animals used in this study; Ana Maluenda, Chacko Joseph, Diannita Kwang, Ingrid Poulton, and Narelle McGregor for excellent technical assistance; and Michael Thompson and Dijana Miljkovic in the SVI Flow Cytometry Facility for FACS-sorting cells for these studies. We thank Prof Pierre Chambon for providing us with the founders of the Rarg and Rarg<SUP>fl/fl</SUP> mice and Dr Andy McMahon for Osx1-Cre founder mice used in these studies.