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. 2020 Sep 11;21(18):6659. doi: 10.3390/ijms21186659

Figure 7.

Figure 7

A hypothesized mechanism of pathological stimuli-induced disorganization of bone tissue. A novel function of M1-polarized macrophages in controlling osteoblast arrangement was discovered. Interleukin-6 was found to control osteoblast alignment, which is a direct determinant of the anisotropic bone matrix microarrangement.