This landscape of blue, red, and gold is a cross section through a developing human bone. Human bones have a hard outer layer made of condensed bone and a softer inner core of spongy bone. This ...
Bethesda, MD. (July 12, 2006) – Mice receiving just one therapeutic dose of radiation lost up to 39% of the spongy portion of their inner bone, reducing the inner bone’s weight bearing connections by ...
Throughout our lives, our bones are continuously remodeled to maintain strength, repair injuries and adapt to new stresses. Bone dynamics depend on two associated cell types: osteoblasts, which are ...