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What does Osteoclasts do?
Osteoclasts degrade bone surfaces so that osteoblasts can produce new bone Also Osteoclasts realese calcium and phosphorus into the blood stream
Are cells that digest old bone in preparation for new bone growth?
Osteoclasts. They are a type of phagocytic cell, similar to the macrophage.
What cell removes bone matrix?
Osteoclasts are cells that degrade bone. Osteoblasts are the cells that build bonesSome bone cells deposit bone and some reabsorb bone tissue.
What cells alter bone shape?
osteoblasts, or "bone builders" help to lay new deposits, while osteoclasts, or "bone clearers,' break them down. ( so osteoblasts and osteoclasts)
What bone cells in the body remodel the synthetic material and produce new bone?
Osteoclasts.
What carries out Bone resorption?
The osteoclasts carry out bone resorption. In contrast, the osteoblasts create new bone.
The bone resorbing cells are called?
osteoclasts are cells that dissolve bone cells.
What are osteoclasts responsible for?
They absorb (or resorb) bone. Bone is active living tissue that is constant remaking itself. The osteoclasts break down and resorb old bone while osteoblasts lay down new bone to take its place.
What are Cells that produce the matrix of new bone tissue are called?
Osteocytes are bone cells. Special ones that build bone are called osteoblasts (blast=build) and ones that break down bone are called osteoclasts (clasts=break).
What bone cells brake bones down?
Osteoclasts are large cells that break down bone tissue
What is the location of osteoclasts?
Osteoclasts break down bone (osteo-=bone, -clast=breaks) and osteoblasts build bone. (-blast=builder). This osteoclasts is on the surface of the bone. Usually breaking down and building up of bone is in equilibrium.
What would happen if you didn't have osteoclasts?
You couldn't make new bone -- no repair, no strengthening
