Fluorescent mapping of osteocyte-driven bone formation at pre-osteocyte and mature osteocyte lacunae.

Bone modeling and remodeling by osteoblasts and osteoclasts has been considered the primary mechanism of bone metabolism; however, osteocyte bone cells resorb their surrounding perilacunar bone matrix. It is unknown whether perilacunar remodeling con…

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