bone cell
collocation in Englishmeaningsofboneandcell
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bone
noun[C or U]
uk/bəʊn/us/boʊn/
any of the hard parts inside a human or animal that make up ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk/sel/us/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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(Definition ofboneandcellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The process of increasedbonecellturnover itself does not usually cause complaints.
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Clinical manifestations start in most patients after 40 years of age and vary depending on the location and activity ofbonecellturnover.
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Osteoporosis is the result of bone loss, caused by a change in factors that regulatebonecellmetabolism.
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Here, an increase in chicken biomass is not limited by muscle andbonecellmortality but is determined by the cell genetic programme.
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Pain resulting from highbonecellturnover responds remarkably quickly to treatment.
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Biomechanicalbonecellsignalling: is there a grapevine?
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Calcitonin, which inhibitsbonecellturnover, also has analgesic effects,73,74 probably by stimulating the production and secretion of endorphin.
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Bonecellturnover decreases and restoration of bone lesions occurs over a period of months to years.
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The signals from these cells are transmitted not only to the osteoblasts and lining cells but also indirectly to the fourthbonecelltype, the osteoclasts.
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These infiltrating tumour cells in turn producebonecell-activating factors, which lead to increased bone resorption and further release of growth factors in a 'vicious cycle'.
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A third type ofbonecellfound in flat bones is called an osteoclast, which destroys the bone using enzymes.
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The programs emphasize the application of fundamental knowledge ofbonecellbiology to the development of drug and gene therapies for bone diseases, especially osteoporosis.
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A specific example would be that ofbonecellgrowth.
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Recent research has also implicated these novel receptors in muscle growth andbonecelldifferentiation and proliferation.
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This loss of bone is caused by the remodelling process, during which the active bone cells replace small packets of bone tissue.
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Therefore, we may use, with good approximation, the method of population kinetics, as representing the 'population' of muscle and bone cells.
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The bone cells, osteoblasts and osteoclasts, work as units, coupled in time and space.
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Several of the bone cells involved in the remodelling process are directly recruited from the haemopoietic blood marrow.
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The dosage needed for a longterm effect is still under discussion and seems to depend on the number of lesions and the activity of the bone cells within the lesions.
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