BCP 101 GD First Timers: Bones 2 (M-P)

This amazing picture shows canaliculi as red snake-like tubes which interconnect with each other.

The dark spots in the picture above are living buried osteocytes.

The dark circle in the center of the osteon above is the centriole.

There are living cells called osteoblasts and osteoclasts on the outside ring of each osteon.

The life of a tiger is dependent on the molecular structure of its bones being correct. If it wasn’t, the bones of the tiger would break and the tiger would die.

In a BB-sized amount of compact bone there are more than ten thousand buried living osteocyte cells.

This is an accurate computer-generated image of a dust-sized amount of a mouse’s brain. It took a lab at Harvard 5 years to put this image together.

The colored parts of the image above are the blood pipes in the mouse’s brain.