Article: Bone

Bone

Bone serves many important functions. Bones support the body, protect underlying organs, and provide a movable skeleton against which the muscles can work. In addition, bone forms all the cells of the blood, plus takes part in calcium and acid-base balance, and storage of trace elements (such as zinc) needed by cells elsewhere.

Bone Structure

Bone is created from osseous connective tissue . Like other types of connective tissue, osseous tissue is composed of relatively sparse cells surrounded by an extracellular network, or matrix . Bone matrix is a tough, resilient mixture of protein and minerals . Osteoblasts, a type of bone cell, secrete proteins into the matrix, which ...



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