Assertion: osteoblast | /r/CapableOf | produce new bone
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text: Osteoblasts can produce new bone in response to an injury such as a fracture.
text: In postnatal life, the skeleton undergoes continuous remodeling in which osteoclasts resorb aged or damaged bone, leaving space for osteoblasts to make new bone.
text: The contents of a single osteon are subserved by the circulation contained in the Haversian canal; the osteoblasts that produced the new bone are incorporated into the layers of bone to become osteocytes, or mature bone cells (Figure 12).