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DIAGRAM: BONE: Physiology of bone remodeling in trabecular bone-series 1 of 9; A=Lining Cell, B=Bone Matrix, C=Osteocyte, D=Canaliculi -- Remodeling is characterized by a coupling of the activities of osteoclasts and osteoblasts, the former destroying old bone and the latter constructing new bone. These coupled units