It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age ...

A recent discovery could transform our understanding of bone health maintenance and pave the way for potential treatments for ...

Genes and function. An estimated 5–20% of osteoblasts present on the bone surface become surrounded by the matrix proteins they produce, and differentiate into osteocytes 22,23.The mechanism by ...

Gross morphology and ultrastructure of billfish bone. Credit: PNAS, Ayelet Atkins, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412372111 PNAS, Ayelet Atkins, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412372111 ...

Hard food, strong jaw: Jawbone structure responds to forceful chewing Date: May 31, 2019 Source: Tokyo Medical and Dental University Summary: Chewing, or mastication, is thought to impact jawbone ...

Osteocytes are plentiful in bone and each has hundreds of tiny processes reaching out in every direction that help secure them to the bone matrix. McGee-Lawrence likens their look to a sweetgum ball.

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers revealed that RANKL expressed by osteocytes is essential for the bone remodeling during orthodontic tooth movement. This result can ...

Osteocytes form a network, ... in 733 knockout mouse lines and reveal 26 osteocyte transcriptome signature genes that control bone structure and function,” noted the researchers.