Sentences with phrase «normal 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.
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Bisphosphonates, for example, disrupt the remodeling of normal bone by shutting down the osteoclasts - the cells which break down old bone to produce new bone.