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Which structures allow nutrients to reach the osteocytes from the blood vessels in the central canal?
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Which structures in the compact bone deliver nutrients to the osteocytes?
Blood vessels running through the Haversian canals...
How is it possible that most osteocytes are far removed from blood vessels but still receive blood- borne nutrients?
each osteocyte is interconnected with other osteocrytes via canaliculi. Canaliculi are tube-like tunnels that transport nutrients to the osteocytes, from the blood vessels
What route is taken by nutrients through a bone starting with periosteum and ending with an osteocyte in a lacuna?
The circulatory system brings blood containing nutrients and oxygen to the periosteum, which covers the bone. The periosteum is a thin membrane that contains nerves and blood vessels. Its main function is to provide nourishment to the bone. From the periosteum, nutrients and oxybgen go through the perforating canals to the central canal, and then to the canaliculi. The osteocyte nearest the central canal passes nutrients to the next osteocyte with arm-like extensions that extend into the canaliculi to the next osteocyte. At the terminal end of each extension, gap junctions connect the cytoplasm of each osteocyte so that nutrients/wastes can be passed between cells to/from the central canal.
Contains the nearest blood vessels to most osteocytes in compact bone?
periosteum
Blood vessels that nourish the osteocytes or bone cells travel to the area through the?
Haversian canal
What do osteoblasts osteocytes and osteoclasts have to do?
The three are all cells that can be found in the bone. Osteoclast -Break down the bone. Osteocyte- Carry nutrients and waste products to and from the blood vessels in the bone. Osteoblast - Create new bone and repair damage.
What is a strand of cytoplasm that connects the bone cell to the blood supply?
Components of Haversian system: osteocytes (spider-shaped bone cells that lie in "lacunae") that have laid down a matrix of collagen and calcium salts in concentric lamellae (layers) around a central Haversian canal containing blood vessels and nerves.The Haversian canal contains small blood vessels responsible for the blood supply to osteocytes (individual bone cells).
What is it's canaliculi?
Canaliculi are tiny channels in bone tissue that allow for the exchange of nutrients and waste between osteocytes (bone cells) and blood vessels. They help maintain the health and function of bone by facilitating communication and transport within the bone tissue.
Explain how bone cells embedded in a solid ground substance obtain nutrients and eliminate waste?
Osteocytes are mature bone cells surrounded by matrix which solid bone cell ground substances attach to. Bone cells are in the proximity of blood vessels, just like any other cell in the body. Bones only have cells in their growth areas and in the bone marrow, where blood cells are also produced.
Epidermal cells are supplied with nutrients from blood vessels located in the?
Epidermal cells are supplied with nutrients from blood vessels in the
How is oxygen carried from outside a bone to an individual osteocyte?
Spider-shaped mature bone cells, called OSTEOCYTES, live in small spaces in the lamellae called LACUNAE. Tiny canals, called CANALICULI, connect the lacunae to each other and to the Haversian canal. The canaliculi contain slender, tentacle-like cellular processes of the osteocytes. The canaliculi provide routes through which nutrients and oxygen from the blood can reach the osteocytes and waste products (ammonia, carbon dioxide) can be removed and eventually carried away by blood vessels in theHaversian canals.
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