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- (which may further differentiate to osteocytes). Osteoblasts/osteocytes develop in mesenchyme. In mature bones, osteocytes and their processes reside inside...
- inactive osteoblasts. Osteocytes remain alive and are connected by cell processes to a surface layer of osteoblasts. Osteocytes have important functions...
- osteocytes reach out to meet osteoblasts, osteoclasts, bone lining cells, and other osteocytes probably for the purposes of communication. Osteocytes...
- of the osteocytes (called filopodia) project into these canals. These cytoplasmic processes are joined together by gap junctions. Osteocytes do not entirely...
- They allow blood vessels and nerves to travel through them to supply the osteocytes. Each Haversian canal generally contains one or two capillaries and many...
- bone matrix, they differentiate into osteocytes, which reside in the lacunae and maintain bone tissue. The osteocytes connect to each other and the Haversian...
- Research has shown that viable osteocytes (another type of bone cell) may prevent osteoclastogenesis, whereas apoptotic osteocytes tend to induce osteoclast...
- In histology, a lacuna is a small space, containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage. The lacuna are situated between the lamellae, and...
- become osteocytes. At this point, the osteoid becomes mineralized resulting in a nidus consisting of mineralized osteoid that contains osteocytes and is...
- is expressed in osteocytes and some chondrocytes and it inhibits bone formation by osteoblasts. Sclerostin production by osteocytes is inhibited by parathyroid...