Assertion: osteoblast | /r/HasAspect | one of four different fates
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text: At the end of the bone‐forming phase, osteoblasts can have one of four different fates: (1) become embedded in the bone as osteocytes, (2) transform into inactive osteoblasts and become bone‐lining cells, (3) undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis), or in some situations (4) transdifferentiate into cells that deposit chondroid or chondroid bone (Manolagas, 2000; Noble et al., 1997;