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sites of active bone cell activity (living bones)
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How does bone development respond when osteoclasts are stimulated more than osteoblasts?
Any of these changes may result if osteoblasts are more active than osteoclasts.
What are giant bone cells with 50 or more nuclei?
Osteoclasts
What Cell can build a bony matrix?
osteoblasts. definitely osteoblasts. Though 'osteoclasts' are correct in the sense that they can call for the osteoblasts. But osteoclasts are more directly involved in chewing away at bone.
Osteoclasts in bone tissue have what effect?
Osteoclasts cut away the calcium from the bones.
Large multinucleated cells that can dissolve the bony matrix are called?
osteoclasts
The remodeling of bone is a function of which cells?
Ossification.
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
The bone resorbing cells are called?
osteoclasts are cells that dissolve bone cells.
What type of cell breaks down bone tissue?
The name of the cell that breaks down bones is called the osteoclast.The cell that builds bones is called the osteocyte.The break down bone cells are usually remodeled by the connective tissue that are found on the surface of the bone.
Are cells that digest old bone in preparation for new bone growth?
Osteoclasts. They are a type of phagocytic cell, similar to the macrophage.
Are osteoblasts or osteoclasts more active in a growing bone?
both are more active because one builds and the other tears down
What is lined with osteoclasts?
Periosteum
