Sentences with phrase «called osteoclasts»

When it becomes more acidic, there's a higher rate of activity of cells called osteoclasts, which break down bone.

Then bone - making cells called osteoblasts and bone - absorbing cells called osteoclasts grow and sculpt new bone at the site of fracture.

It influences the development of special cells, the so - called osteoclasts that are responsible for bone resorption.

Another proposal centers on cells called osteoclasts.

This outcome is achieved because miR - 34a blocks the development of bone - destroying cells called osteoclasts, which make the bone less dense and prone to fracture.

Ordinarily, bone is built up by cells called osteoblasts and reabsorbed during growth and healing by cells called osteoclasts.

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The parasites might trigger these problems, the scientists hypothesized, by upsetting the normal balance between cells known as osteoclasts, which dissolve bone, and cells called osteoblasts, which build it back up.

A messenger protein called IL - 6 produced in bone marrow helps to encourage the growth of osteoclasts.

By adding vitamin D to a petri dish full of osteoclast precursors, they discovered that the hormone blocked a signal called RANK ligand that tells these cells to become osteoclasts.