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Which of the following could be caused by depressed osteoblast activity?

A) low blood calcium levels and a lack of bone growth *** my choice ***

B) high blood calcium levels and excessive bone growth

C) low blood calcium levels and and excessive bone growth

D) high blood calcium and a lack of bone growth.

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Help need someone to check my answer. Will fan and give a medal.

Which of the following could be caused by depressed osteoblast activity? 



A) low blood calcium levels and a lack of bone growth  *** my choice ***

B) high blood calcium levels and excessive bone growth

C) low blood calcium levels and and excessive bone growth

D) high blood calcium and a lack of bone growth.

whydoihavetosignup1 · Answer

I'd go with A.

anonymous · Answer

ok thanks that was my choice too

whydoihavetosignup1 · Answer

You guessed it :) , But wait don't answer it just yet doing a little research

whydoihavetosignup1 · Answer

ok, I've found nothing ...

anonymous · Answer

I didn't either

anonymous · Answer

Thanks for your help.

whydoihavetosignup1 · Answer

Tell me if its right or wrong :) and welcome .

anonymous · Answer

Ok i will i have a ways to go so it may be tomorrow

anonymous · Answer

i go with B.

anonymous · Answer

why B?  @syay43

anonymous · Answer

A fracture bone can heal faster when osteoblast in depressed condition and increase of osteocyte ( regulate calcium and phosphate ions in body). Thus if for normal bone condition like answer B will happen. ( correct me if i am wrong)

anonymous · Answer

Osteocytes are a type of osteoblasts.

anonymous · Answer

thnks for correcting me i appreciate it :) @mrdoldum

anonymous · Answer

After what I can figure out from my limited knowledge and some googling, I advance these hypothesis:

* Osteoblasts synthesize bones through the use of calcium and other components.

* a "depressed" cell is a cell that is working suboptimally or not at all.

Therefore, I believe it would actually be * D *, as the osteoblasts aren't consuming the calcium (so the levels are high), and since they're not functional, there's no bone growth.

I'm no specialist, and have no advanced knowledge related to osteogenesis or anything, so I just looker around and went with the most logical *to me* answer.

Do correct me if I'm wrong, syay43's answer kind of contradicts what I'm saying, so a little research on your part is probably needed (like, in your lessons, what does a depressed osteoblast/cell do?)

anonymous · Answer

@pbock thnks for your opinion i will try to search more.

anonymous · Answer

so what was the answer? A or D?