Osteoblasts

"Osteoblasts" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Bone-forming cells which secrete an EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX. HYDROXYAPATITE crystals are then deposited into the matrix to form bone.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osteoblasts" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osteoblasts" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 210 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2010
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.