Researchers have developed a novel compound that could be useful for treating bone-destructive diseases. Their study describes a tetravalent peptide that regulates the interaction between RANK and ...

Discover 8 common daily habits that secretly weaken your bones and increase fracture risk. Learn how to protect bone density ...

Why so many? Put simply, in order to be born successfully, your fairly large human infant has to fit through a fairly small opening. This requires some degree of flexibility. There’s no way a baby ...

Bone-destructive diseases such as osteoporosis and chronic inflammatory arthritis affect millions of people worldwide, ...

Osteoporosis is the most common of all bone diseases and it has been called the silent killer because there are often no symptoms. Also osteoporosis can mimic other diseases such chronic fatigue ...

But there’s a silent side effect of estrogen loss that might be the most dangerous—and overlooked—one of all: bone density loss, in the form of osteopenia and osteoporosis. Now there’s a new way to ...

osteoblasts and osteocytes) by stimulating the process of bone resorption and inhibiting bone formation. According to some authors, even small doses, such as <2.5 mg of prednisolone may increase ...

9 Not only is the balance of osteoblasts and osteoclasts altered, but the microenvironment of the osteocyte is also remodeled, leading to the increased apoptosis of osteocytes. Testosterone plays ...

“Bone strength is based on the balance of two different kinds of cells: Osteoblasts build bones, and osteoclasts break down bones,” Chowdhury explains. Osteoblasts help form the "scaffolding ...

These are the: If a bone gets damaged, the osteoblasts make new bone to repair the damage. The osteoclasts break down any extra bone framework that the osteoblasts make and reshape the bone. When bone ...

Bone is constantly formed, reformed, and remodeled throughout life, and up to 10% of human bone is replaced annually through a complex interplay between two cell types—osteoblasts, which form ...