Bone
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A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, help regulate acid-ba
A bone dating from the Pleistocene Ice Age of an extinct species of an elephant, possibly a mammoth
A scanning electronic micrograph of a Wistar rat's bone at 10,000× magnification
Structure of a long bone
Cross-section details of a long bone
Bone remodeling
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In osteology, bone remodeling or bone metabolism is a lifelong process where mature bone tissue is removed from the skeleton and new bone tissue is formed. Recent research has identified a specialised
Osteoblasts actively synthesizing osteoid containing two osteocytes.