Osteocyte function, osteocyte death and bone fracture resistance.
The function of the most numerous cell in bone, the osteocyte, has until recently been mysterious and at times controversial. There is now an emerging consensus that osteocytes modulate signals arising from mechanical loading and so direct the appearance and disappearance of bone tissue at the micro...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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