Assertion: osteocyte | /r/HasProperty | embedded in bone
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text: Therefore, it was a novel and unexpected observation to find that osteocytes embedded in bone can secrete factors that can target distant organs (Figure 5).
text: Most well known as being retired osteoblasts (bone building cells), osteocytes are indeed bone-embedded and osteoblast-derived, but Dr Bonewald contests they are more important than imagined.
text: In addition, recent studies have demonstrated that osteocytes embedded within the bone have the capacity to extend their processes and indeed, are capable of forming new connections with neighboring osteocytes and osteoblasts.11
text: Focus was also drawn to the perilacunar matrix which surrounds the osteocytes embedded in bone (outside the lacuna, or space in bone which the cell inhabits).