Sentences with phrase «cells called osteoblasts»

Too much p53 in bone - making cells called osteoblasts dials down a gene, H19, and a related protein, decorin, that would otherwise help stem cells mature (differentiate) to become normal osteoblasts.

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

THE METHODS In 2000, Gerard Karsenty, a molecular geneticist at Columbia University in New York City, discovered that leptin, a hormone made by fat cells, helps mold and repair the skeleton by acting upon bone - building cells called osteoblasts.

The stretched cells turned into bone - making cells called osteoblasts, Chen's team reports in the April issue of Developmental Cell.

Bones need a constant new creation of cells specific to their tissue, including the bone - producing cells called osteoblasts.

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.

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

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Mesenchymal stem cells express a surface protein called α4β1 integrin as they turn into osteoblasts.

The first protein is called osteocalcin and is produced in the bone by specialized cells charged with building bone called osteoblasts.

I think that probably the signs of pano or the actual development of enostosis, as some prefer to call it, in the hemophiliac dog come about via bleeding in the marrow with osteoblast (bone depositing cells) activity.