Sentences with phrase «dissolving osteoclasts»
The ruffled surfaces of bone - dissolving osteoclasts (pink) indicate that they are stripping out stressed bone.
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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.
As might be expected, it reduces the number of bone - dissolving cells, or osteoclasts, in mice with a condition resembling osteoporosis.