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osteoblastic

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osteoblastic
emanating from or pertaining to an osteoblast.


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Graves and colleagues plan to "examine the effect of FOXO1 on mineralized tissue to examine how it may regulate factors that control bone resorption and osteoclastogenesis, in addition to effects it may have on osteoblastic cells.
The inflammation appeared to have provided the initial stimulus for osteoblastic proliferation, which was then boosted by surgical intervention.
5-6) The main problem is that bisphosphonates not only directly - and unnaturally -inhibit osteoclastic bone resorption, they also indirectly inhibit the other side of the bone-building coin, osteoblastic bone formation.
 
 
 
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