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In modern skeletons, tiny blood vessels that burrow into the bone’s hard matrix provide an inroad for cells called osteoclasts to eat away old bone and for cells called osteoblasts to begin making new bone.
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Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 10 Jan. 2025
Magnesium also helps the body make key enzymes that stimulate production of osteoblasts (new bone cells).
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
Lab research shows that flavonoids may increase the activity of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) and decrease the activity of bone-degrading cells (osteoclasts).12
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—Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
In healthy patients with a bone fracture, after about two weeks, bodies begin to fill in the break with new bone cells—called osteoblasts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2023
Bone metabolism is characterized by the reabsorption of bone by osteoclast cells and the laying down of new bone by osteoblast cells.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2022
The material then serves as 3D scaffolds for osteoblasts, or bone cells.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
The second, osteoblasts, create the matrices that bones form around, Byrne reports.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2017
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Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 10 Jan. 2025
Magnesium also helps the body make key enzymes that stimulate production of osteoblasts (new bone cells).
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
Lab research shows that flavonoids may increase the activity of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) and decrease the activity of bone-degrading cells (osteoclasts).12
7.
—Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
In healthy patients with a bone fracture, after about two weeks, bodies begin to fill in the break with new bone cells—called osteoblasts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2023
Bone metabolism is characterized by the reabsorption of bone by osteoclast cells and the laying down of new bone by osteoblast cells.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2022
The material then serves as 3D scaffolds for osteoblasts, or bone cells.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
The second, osteoblasts, create the matrices that bones form around, Byrne reports.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2017
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“Osteoblast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/osteoblast. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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osteoblast
noun
os·te·o·blast
ˈäs-tē-ə-ˌblast 
: a cell that forms bone
Medical Definition
osteoblast
noun
os·teo·blast
ˈäs-tē-ə-ˌblast
: a bone-forming cell
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