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Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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A representative micrograph of osteoclast differentiation and activity in response to irradiation with blue light. Numerous small pits formed on the bone-like substrate in the half of the well that was exposed to light as a result of bone resorption by light-induced osteoclasts.

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Department of Cell Biology, TMDU

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