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Synthetic
- Blood production: The marrow produces blood cells in a process called haematopoiesis.
Metabolic
- Mineral storage: Bones act as reserves of minerals important for the body, most notably calcium and phosphorus.
- Growth factor storage: Mineralized bone matrix stores important growth factors
- Fat storage: The yellow bone marrow acts as a storage
reserve of fatty acids.
- Acid-base balance: Bone buffers the blood against excessive pH changes by absorbing or releasing alkaline salts.
- Detoxification: Bone tissues can also store heavy metals
and other foreign elements, removing them from the blood
and reducing their effects on other tissues. These can later be gradually released for excretion.
- Endocrine organ:Bone controls phosphate metabolism
by releasing fibroblast growth factor, which acts on kidneys
to reduce phosphate reabsorption. Next>>
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