We have studied the adhesion and dissociation of isolated rat osteoclasts from plastic or bone matrix using time‐lapse videomicroscopy and adhesion assays, and find that Mg2+ and not Ca2+ is essential for cell attachment and that Ca2+ and not Mg2+ is critical for dissociation.
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