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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2026

Rethinking osteocyte models

Małgorzata Morenc, Flavia Medeiros Savi, Alexandra Tits, Pascal R Buenzli, Richard Weinkamer, Peter Fratzl, Nathalie Bock

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Małgorzata MorencMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Flavia Medeiros SaviMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Alexandra TitsMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Potsdam, Germany.
Pascal R BuenzliMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Richard WeinkamerMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Potsdam, Germany.
Peter FratzlMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Potsdam, Germany.
Nathalie BockMax Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices (MPQC), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteocytes inhabit one of the most extreme cellular microenvironments in the human body: a hydrated, hierarchically structured mineralised extracellular matrix where lacunar confinement, canalicular connectivity, fluid transport and mechanics are inseparable from cell function.

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bone-on-chipbone tissue engineeringlacunocanalicular networkmechanobiologymicrophysiological systemsmineralised extracellular matrixosteocyte modelsosteocyte network

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PMID42724305
PMCPMC13559003

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