| 11. | Sclerostin is produced by the osteocyte and has anti-anabolic effects on bone formation.
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| 12. | Stimulation of osteocyte apoptosis by alcohol exposure may explain decreased bone mineral density in chronic drinkers.
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| 13. | Thus again, cementum is more similar to alveolar bone, with its osteoblasts becoming entrapped osteocytes.
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| 14. | It is also known that osteocytes can secrete growth factors which activate lining cells or stimulate osteoblasts.
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| 15. | In the skeleton, the osteocyte is a stellate cell, embedded within the bone matrix itself.
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| 16. | These canaliculi provide the nutrients needed for the newly transformed osteoblasts, which are now called osteocytes.
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| 17. | Materials picked up by osteocytes adjacent to blood vessels are distributed throughout the bone matrix via the canaliculi.
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| 18. | "' Osteocytes "'are osteoblasts which have become trapped inside of the bone matrix.
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| 19. | Osteocytes develop long branches which allow them to contact each other and also contact the bone lining cells.
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| 20. | RANKL is a cytokine that remains on the surface of osteoblasts, osteocytes, and bone lining cells.
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