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Advances in the osteoblast lineage
1998-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Osteoblasts are the skeletal cells responsible for synthesis, deposition and mineralization of the extracellular matrix of bone. By mechanisms that are only beginning to be understood, stem and primitive osteoprogenitors and related mesenchymal precursors arise in the embryo and at least some appear to persist in the adult organism, where they contribute to replacement of osteoblasts in bone turnover and in fractu...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1ab30321-5e47-5d2c-b686-a2456d9c5831
- DOI
- 10.1139/o99-005
