Assertion: osteocyte | /r/CapableOf | undergo degeneration
Facets:
value: with subsequent phagocytosis by osteoclasts.30
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Previous electron‐microscopy studies have reported that osteocytes juxtaposed to resorbing osteoclasts undergo degeneration, with subsequent phagocytosis by osteoclasts.30, 31 It has been widely interpreted from these morphological studies that osteoclastic resorption processes cause the involutional changes in osteocytes in bone that they are about to resorb, i.e., that local acidic pH, enzymatic, or cytokine influences from osteoclasts induce changes in osteocytes.