Role of mechanically damaged osteocytes
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Kosaku Kurata; Takanobu Fukunaga; Junpei Matsuda; Hidehiko Higaki
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Microdamage is naturally contained in bone and has been considered to trigger bone remodeling. Osteocytes, which exist in bone matrix forming 3-D cell-to-cell network, provide cellular basis to detect local mechanical environment neighboring the microdamage, and should be involved in the initiating