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What disorder primarily affects the bone matrix and is due to the loss of a calcium salt?
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∙ 9y ago
what disorder primary affects the bone matrix and is due to the loo of calcium salt
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∙ 10y ago
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoThere are two that are more common: osteopenia ("little bone") and osteoporosis ("bone with holes"). These two are common as you age.
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Where at in the bones is calcium?
Calcium is found in the matrix of bone.
What has an extracellualar matrix?
Many things do but the best example is bone with a matrix made mostly of calcium.
What is the primary mineral found in bone matrix?
Calcium
What are two types os substances are stored in bone matrix?
Bone matrix is composed mostly of calcium, phosphorus, and trace minerals like iron, copper, and magnesium.
What is the matrix hard owing to calcium salts?
Osseous tissue has cells that are arranged in concentric circles around a nutrient canal matrix and is hard due to calcium salts.
What is the matrix of cartilage?
It is composed primarily of hyaluronic acid.
What are bones cells that liquefy bone matrix and release calcium to the blood called?
Bone cells that liquefy the bone matrix and release calcium into the blood are called Osteoclasts. Immature or matrix depositing bone cells are called osteoblasts.
What is calcium apatite?
Cal Apatite is a comprehensive bone support formula featuring purity-tested, calcium-rich MCHC†, a complex crystalline compound composed primarily of calcium, phosphorus, delicate organic factors and protein matrix, bone-derived growth factors, and a full spectrum of trace minerals that naturally comprise healthy bone.*
Why can a bone not grow interstitially?
Because of the hard calcium salts in the matrix
Location of mineral salts in bone?
The bone matrix is hard due to the primary salt of calcium chloride.
What inorganic material causes bone to ossify?
The extracellular matrix consists primarily of calcium and phosphorus in the form of hydroxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2.
Bone cells that liquefy bone matrix and release calcium to the blood?
Osteoclasts
