ANATOMY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bone Marrow, Hydroxylapatite, Collagen

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What kind of tissue is bone: connective tissue. What are other kinds of connective tissue: ligaments, tendons, blood, cartilage. The shape and nature of the bone have a lot to do with the actual job it serves in our body. Bone is really only a small portion of organic molecule made up of living cells. The majority of bone is inorganic, which is made of proteins such as collagen and hydroxyapatite is a type of substance that is calcium based and is the hard, bony aspect of bone. The other bone that we don"t talk about is the organic aspect of bone. There"s a lot of other cells in bone that do things. Calcium plays a huge role in our bones formation. While bones are made of calcium, you also want to think of them as a place of calcium storage. Calcium is used by many other cells in the body.

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