What is the function of bone in the body?

Answer 1

Bone cells store nutrients to make our bones strong enough to support our body. Bone cells also help your hormones develope.

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Well, I'm not sure how much the bone cells can 'store' nutrients... the cell part is small in mass/volume compared to the mineral matrix of bone itself. The cells (osteoblasts technically) more just squirt out the squishy fibers and enzymes that allow those fibers to mineralize. That mass of mineralized matrix is 'bone' in the lay sense of the word. It's hard. It's a skeleton on which all our muscles are built. But it's not a solid mass of cells like our skin or muscles are.

There are a couple cells that are within this hard bone material--they're the osteocytes. They're little pipsqueak cells that aren't really big enough to do much and they're very very stuck in one position (just like Han Solo in carbonite). But they're holding 'hands' with one another and reaching out to the cells on the surface and they're not dead (you hope. it's big trouble if they die 'cause it can lead to osteonecrosis where your bone can crumble apart. and that sucks.), so the osteocytes probably do something.

There are osteoblasts--these little guys sit on bone in a plump little line and they squirt out the fibers that make up bone. But we've already covered this, yeah?

Then there are osteoclasts. These giant fellows look something like a cross between Jabba the Hut and a Pac-Man ghost, and they really are massive. The hungry fat kids of the bone world. They're also derived from a different side of the cellular family tree than the rest of the bone cells (hematopoietic stem cells vs. mesenchymal stem cells--which is probably the only way they had the machinery to blob together into one massive used-to-be-six-cells-but-now-is-one-giant-one cell). These big guys attach to bone and eat away at the bone. The borrow through it or leave big pits. Old people have too many osteoclasts (in ratio to osteoblasts) and so their bones keep getting smaller and smaller. But let's not be too hard on the osteoclasts, 'cause we've found out recently that you can't have healthy bone without them. Something to do with 'needing to remove the old before they can call in the new'. Figures. Oh! And these are the cells that break down calcium so you can have calcium ions in your bloodstream. This is wicked important--without these ions, your muscles and nerves won't work. That would suck.

There are also other bone cells, like bone lining cells.

Answer 2

Mainely, there are three types of bone cells,Osteoblast, Osteoclast, and Osteocytes.Osteoblast is responsible for prdoducing bone cells. Osteoclast is responsible for breaking bone cells and the last one , bone containing osteocytes that are regularly spaced throughout the bone matrix,remain in contact with each other and with cells on the bone surface via gap junction-coupled cell processes passing through the matrix via small channels.

Answer 3

There are many functions of bone cells. They dissolve the bone, form bone, and help maintain bone and lining cell that cover the surface of the bone.

Answer 4

One job of the bone cell is to secrete growth factors. The bone cell is also responsible for remodeling the bone.

Answer 5

Bone cells of vertebrate animals form bones which provide support and protection .

Answer 6

what is the function of the bone in the body

Answer 7

Bones provide structural support for the body, protect internal organs, store minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, and produce blood cells in the bone marrow.

Answer 8

make frame of the body