MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Large tubercles and/or increased deposit of bony matrix occur at sites of BLANK. osteoblasts. Immature, or matrix-depositing, bone cells are referred to as BLANK. calcitonin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Osteoblasts are immature bone cells. Osteoblasts that become trapped in the bone matrix differentiate into osteocytes. Osteocytes are the main cells in bony connective tissue; these cells cannot divide. These mature bone cells differentiate from osteoblasts that become trapped by mineralized bone matrix.

Detailed explanation-3: -immature, or matrix depositing, bone cells are referred to as bone forming. osteoblasts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bone is resorbed by osteoclasts, and is deposited by osteoblasts in a process called ossification. Osteocyte activity plays a key role in this process. Conditions that result in a decrease in bone mass can either be caused by an increase in resorption or by a decrease in ossification.

Detailed explanation-5: -The osteocytes, osteoblasts buried in bone matrix, live as long as the bone lives and are an essential feature of bone.