Assertion: viable osteocyte | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: to send signals
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: As the osteocytes are dead or missing in necrotic bone, and as necrotic bone does not remodel, this suggests that viable osteocytes are necessary to send signals of (re)modeling.
text: As the osteocytes are dead or missing in necrotic bone and as necrotic bone does not remodel, this suggests that viable osteocytes are necessary to initiate (re)modeling.
text: The paper byprovides data showing that viable osteocytes are necessary to send signals to prevent bone loss under normal loading or ambulation and are also necessary to activate bone loss in response to unloading.
text: During normal loading (ɛ represents strain) or ambulation, osteocytes (stellate-shaped cell within bone) send inhibitory signals (red X) to osteoclasts (blue multinucleated cells on bone surface) to maintain bone mass, while viable osteocytes are necessary to send signals activating osteoclasts in response to unloading (ɛ with red X).