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Image: Osteoporotic bone

 

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These images are freely available for use by non-profit, educational organisations on the understanding that a clear acknowledgement is made.

Commercial organisations wishing to use this (or similar) material should first contact the named researcher.

If you would like to contribute an image please email Dr Colin Farquharson

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Osteoporotic bone
 

  

 

   

Image: Osteoporotic erosion
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  Low power scanning electron microscope image, showing osteoporotic architecture in the fourth lumbar vertebra of an 89 year old woman (20 times magnified). The bone is heavily eroded in places by the action of osteoclasts and consists mainly of thin, fragile struts.

By kind permission of
Alan Boyde ([email protected])

       
  Image: osteoporotic erosion
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View a video clip of osteoporotic bone
(of the vertebra described above)

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By kind permission of
Alan Boyde ([email protected])

     

 

Normal bone
 

 

 

 

Image: Normal bone
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View a video clip of normal bone
Animation made from low power scanning electron microscope images, showing normal bone architecture in the third lumbar vertebra of a 30 year old woman (20 times magnified).  Strong, interconnected plates of bone are visible.

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Quicktime Player (.mov 0.5MB)

By kind permission of
Alan Boyde ([email protected])

 

 

   
 

Image: Normal bone
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Very low power scanning electron microscope image, showing normal bone architecture in the fourth lumbar vertebra of an 41 year year old man (8 times magnified). A regular pattern of interconnected plates and thick struts of bone can be seen.

By kind permission of
Alan Boyde ([email protected])

       

Osteoclasts
 

   
 

Image: Osteoclast
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Scanning electron micrograph showing osteoclast resorbing bone.

By kind permission of
Tim Arnett ([email protected])

       
 

Image: Osteoclast
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner for an osteoclast!

By kind permission of
Alan Boyde ([email protected])

       
 

Movie

 

Osteoclast

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Time lapse movie of a rat osteoclast. This large cell has 7 nuclei, and displays complex motile activity. The sequence is speeded up 100 times

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By kind permission of
Tim Arnett ([email protected])

 

Movie

 

Osteoblasts