BONE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bone cell mean? 

• BONE CELL (noun)
  The noun BONE CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell that is part of a bone

  Familiarity information: BONE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell that is part of a bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("bone cell" is a kind of...):

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bone cell"):

megakaryocyte (a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets)

osteoclast (cell that functions in the breakdown and resorption of bone tissue)

osteocyte (mature bone cell)

Holonyms ("bone cell" is a part of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

 Context examples 

Diphosphonates inhibit a type of bone cell that breaks down bone.

(Diphosphonate, NCI Dictionary)

A group of cells that includes FIBROBLASTS, cartilage cells, ADIPOCYTES, smooth muscle cells, and bone cells.

(Murine Connective Tissue Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It binds to a protein called RANKL, which keeps RANKL from binding to another protein called RANK on the surface of certain bone cells, including bone cancer cells.

(AMG 162, NCI Dictionary)

A group of cells that includes fibroblasts, cartilage cells, adipocytes, smooth muscle cells, and bone cells.

(Connective and Soft Tissue Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Anti-CCR2 monoclonal antibody MLN1202 binds to a protein called CCR2, which is found on the surface of certain bone cells, white blood cells, and cancer cells.

(anti-CCR2 monoclonal antibody MLN1202, NCI Dictionary)

A radioactive substance that is given through a vein, and collects in bone cells and in tumor cells that have spread to the bone.

(Bone-seeking radioisotope, NCI Dictionary)

Bisphosphonates inhibit a type of bone cell that breaks down bone.

(Biphosphonate, NCI Dictionary)

MLN1202 binds to a protein called CCR2, which is found on the surface of certain bone cells, white blood cells, and cancer cells.

(MLN1202, NCI Dictionary)

Induced by lipopolysaccharide, endotoxins, and cytokines and expressed as 2 alternative isoforms in liver, retina, bone cells, and airway epithelia by human NOS2A Gene (NOS Family), calcium/calmodulin stimulated homodimeric Nitric Oxide Synthase 2A binds FAD and FMN cofactors, contains a flavodoxin-like domain, requires BH4 which may stabilize the dimer, and synthesizes reactive free radical nitric oxide messenger (from L-arginine).

(Nitric Oxide Synthase, Inducible, NCI Thesaurus)

Upregulated by vitamin D in bone cells and expressed at high levels in heart, kidney, and lung by human MGP Gene (Osteocalcin/MGP Family), 103-aa 12-kDa (precursor) secreted Matrix Gla Protein is associated with the organic matrix of bone and cartilage and is a putative inhibitor of bone formation.

(Matrix Gla Protein, NCI Thesaurus)