A study of correlation of osteoblasts from peripheral blood with related bone turnover markers.

The bone remodeling process called osteoblasts has an important role in bone formation working together with osteoclasts of which the cells are responsible for bone resorption. In addition, these bone turnover markers are used to follow-up the conditions of bone remodeling in the patients. Recently, osteoblastic lineage cells have been found that they exist in the human peripheral blood.