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. 2016 Sep;16(3):221–236.

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Bone tissue anatomy and cellular architecture. (A) Macroscopic bone tissue anatomy: osteon, osteocyte, and cytoplasmic processes. (B) Schematic representation of an osteocyte. Osteocytes are embedded into a mineralized bone matrix surrounded by three different and communicating porosities.