Drinking milk helps your bones grow big and strong, but what if direct exposure to light could help, too? Now, researchers from Japan report that lighting up bone tissue could help treat bone disease.

Your bones are constantly renewing and rebuilding. We have two different types of bone cells – osteoblasts and osteoclasts.

Cutting-Edge Imaging Sheds New Light on Cells That Break Down Bone Oct. 26, 2023 — Imaging technology shows that bone-resorbing osteoclasts gather in distinct pockets, leading to new insights ...

Oral bisphosphonates are a class of medications that’s got a bone to pick, so to speak, with osteoclasts. Such medications can inhibit the activity of osteoclasts. Osteoclasts are cells in bones ...

which is essential for the activation of osteoclasts. This approval positions Wyost as a treatment to prevent ...

Feb. 21, 2024 — With ever-increasing life expectancy comes the challenge of treating age-related disorders such as osteoporosis. Although there are effective drugs for treating this metabolic ...

driven by osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes. (Illustration: Getty) So, the bone-headed claim is that you can use a blunt object to cause fractures in your face in a manner that can re-shape ...

R-335-3p, which targets FOS and inhibits its activation of NFATC1 signaling, is an important regulator for osteoclast function and responsible for the psychological stress induced osteoporosis The ...

interact indirectly and directly with important groups of bone cells involved in the bone turnover process (including osteoclasts, osteoblasts and osteocytes) by stimulating the process of bone ...

Role of RANKL in differentiation, fusion, activation and survival of osteoclasts. Osteoclast differentiation is a multistep process. Myeloid progenitor cells progressively differentiate into ...

Using mice, Ishii captured footage of osteoclasts breaking down bone tissue for the first time in the world. 06:00 The blue areas are bone, and the red parts resembling amoebas on the bone's ...