Assertion: osteocyte's matrix | /r/HasProperty | mineralized
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text: Although the mature osteocyte is surrounded by a mineralized matrix and may therefore appear isolated from its neighboring cells both within the matrix and on the bone surface, these cells, in fact, display a high degree of connectivity, as is demonstrated in Figure 2.
text: (2012) reported increased expression by osteocytes in bone of lactating animals of a number of genes, which collectively suggested that osteocytes remove mineralised matrix by utilising molecular mechanisms similar to those in resorbing osteoclasts.
text: Before the organic matrix is mineralized, it is called the osteoid.