{"id":1468,"date":"2016-07-02T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:29:32","slug":"osteocytes-and-the-bone-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/07\/02\/osteocytes-and-the-bone-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Osteocytes and the Bone Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Osteocytes<\/strong> are bone cells \u00a0that sit within chambers called <strong>lacuna<\/strong>. \u00a0 Lacuna are connective via tine canals called <strong>canaliculi<\/strong> and form concentric circles around a central <strong>haversian canal<\/strong>. \u00a0 This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biologycorner.com\/worksheets\/bone-matrix-color.html\" target=\"_blank\">coloring worksheet<\/a> may help with your understanding of these relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Transverse_Section_Of_Bone-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1500 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Transverse_Section_Of_Bone-1.png\" alt=\"transverse_section_of_bone\" width=\"491\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Transverse_Section_Of_Bone-1.png 491w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Transverse_Section_Of_Bone-1-250x218.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/bone-matrix-volkmans-500px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1474 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/bone-matrix-volkmans-500px-417x500.jpg\" alt=\"haversian system\" width=\"417\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/bone-matrix-volkmans-500px-417x500.jpg 417w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/bone-matrix-volkmans-500px-208x250.jpg 208w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/bone-matrix-volkmans-500px.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be very difficult to develop a mental map of all of these structures. \u00a0 \u00a0Imagine the lacuna is a space holding the osteocyte and your fingers are the canaliculi. \u00a0If you have friends, you can model multiple osteocytes and the circular arrangement of the lamella, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1471\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px.jpg\" alt=\"modeling\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px.jpg 800w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/canaliculi-800px-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteocytes are bone cells \u00a0that sit within chambers called lacuna. \u00a0 Lacuna are connective via tine canals called canaliculi and form concentric circles around a central haversian canal. \u00a0 This coloring worksheet may help with your understanding of these relationships. It can be very difficult to develop a mental map of all of these structures. \u00a0 \u00a0Imagine the lacuna is a space holding the osteocyte and your fingers are the canaliculi. \u00a0If you have friends, you can model multiple osteocytes and the circular arrangement of the lamella, as shown below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138,312,313,314,315,311],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-bone","tag-canaliculi","tag-haversian","tag-lamella","tag-matrix","tag-osteocyte","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}