Some osteocytes released from their lacunae are embedded again in the bone and not engulfed by osteoclasts during bone remodeling

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-128

  Suzuki, Reiko ^a   Domon, Takanori ^a   Wakita, Minoru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone cells; Cement lines; Closing cones; Cutting cones; Serial sections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CORTICAL BONE; EMBEDDING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033861346     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290000101     Document Type: Article

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