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Osteoblasts

By kind permission of Isabel Orriss (iorriss@rvc.ac.uk)

Time lapse movie of rat osteoblasts. This dense field shows several hundred cells, including a few undergoing mitosis. Note that many osteoblasts display large, waving processes, resembling cilia. The sequence is speeded up 200 times.