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SUBMITTER: Agoro R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485387 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agoro Rafiou R Ni Pu P Noonan Megan L ML White Kenneth E KE
Frontiers in endocrinology 20200828
Osteocytes, which represent up to 95% of adult skeletal cells, are deeply embedded in bone. These cells exhibit important interactive abilities with other bone cells such as osteoblasts and osteoclasts to control skeletal formation and resorption. Beyond this local role, osteocytes can also influence the function of distant organs due to the presence of their sophisticated lacunocanalicular system, which connects osteocyte dendrites directly to the vasculature. Through these networks, osteocytes ...[more]