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12 - Cartilage and Bone Flashcards

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What is cartilage?

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Avascular connective tissue that consists of chrondocytes and a semisolid extracellular matrix

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What are the three types of cartilage and what are their extracellular matrixes made of?

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All matrix have proteoglycan and hyaluronic acid

- Hyaline: Type II Collagen aggregates to 100 hyaluronate proteoglycan

- Elastic: Elastic fibres and elastic lamellar

- Fibrocartilage (Fibrous): Mainly Type I collagen

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Where is hyaline cartilage found?

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  • Trachea
  • Layrnx
  • Articular at joints
  • Nose
  • Costal cartilage
  • Epiphyseal growth plates
  • Foetus
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What is the structure and function of hyaline cartilage?

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Structure:

  • Avascular
  • Perichondrium on edges.
  • Perichondrocytes differentiate into chondroblasts then chondrocytes, which sit in lacuna.
  • Isogenous groups.
  • Chondrocytes separate as they release extracellular matrix.

Function:

  • Xcell matrix is full of water. Water non-compressible so resilient to increased loads.
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What is the function of cartilage?

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  • Resilient
  • Firm
  • Flexible
  • Strength

Fibres, Water and Ground substance make up xcellular matrix that give cartilage it’s properties. Allows Articular joints to slide over each other

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How does cartilage get nutrients?

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Cartilage avascular. Nutrients have to diffuse from vessels in the perichondrium to the extracellular matrix.

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What is a proteoglycan?

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Make up ground substance. Core protein with GAG covalently bound.

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What is GAG?

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Glycosaminoglycans. Long chained poly-saccharides. They attract water to form hydrated gel that permits rapid diffusion but resists compression

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What GAG is predominantly found in cartilage?

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Hyaluronate. Binds to core protein to form proteoglycan that is massively hydrophilic, attracts water to form gel.

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Why is the extracellular matrix of cartilage more gel-like than other connective tissues?

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Contains more proteoglycan so in ground substance

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What cartilage is present in the trachea and why?

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Hyaline (below submucosa). Reinforces trachea to protect and maintain airway

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When does cartilage repair itself?

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It doesn’t, chondrocytes cannot divide. Fibroblasts replace cartilage with fibrous scar tissue

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Where is elastic cartilage found?

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  • Pinna of ear
  • Eustachian tube (inner ear to oral)
  • Epiglottis
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What is the function of the elastic cartilage?

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Areas that need extra flexibility and support

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What is the structure of elastic cartilage?

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Perichondrium containing fibroblasts. Lots of chondrocytes surrounded by dense elastin fibres. ‘Gaps’ where chondrocytes have laid down their elastic and died.

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Where is fibrocartilage found?

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  • Pubic symphysis
  • Intervertebral disc
  • Knee menisci (padlike cartilage)
  • Articular joint of sterniclavicular and temporomandibular
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What is the function of fibrocartilage?

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Found in areas of directional stress, so shock absorbs and resists shearing forces.

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What is the structure of fibrocartilage?

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  • Few chondrocytes and few fibroblasts arranged in rows, in collagen. No surrounding perichondrium.
  • Mix of hyaline cartilage and dense regular connective tissue
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What two tissues can fibrocartilage be called a mixture of?

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Hyaline cartilage and dense regular

20
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How do bones develop in the fetus in simple terms?

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Hyaline cartilage model mineralises to form bone and then grows by endochondral ossification

21
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What cartilage is at bone ends?

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Hyaline Articular with no perichondrium. Nutrients come from synovial fluid.

22
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Is bone inert?

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No it is dynamic, constantly being broken down and remodelled

23
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What is compact bone made of?

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Concentrically arranged lamella. Osteons.

24
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What is cancellous bones made up of?

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Trabeculae. Lamellae woven together

25
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Which bones have a greater proportion of spongy bone?

26
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What is appositional bone growth?

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  • Bone remodelling
  • Growth in width
  • Bone taken from endosteum and added to periosteum
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What is interstitial growth?

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  • Growth from the centre.
  • Increase in bone length.
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What is the periosteum?

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Dense irregular connective tissue, connected to the outside of bone by collagen fibres called Sharpey fibres.

- 1st layer - dense collagenous with nerves, fibroblasts and vessels

- 2nd layer - Osteogenic cells, less vascular

CONTAINS NERVES, LYMPH AND BLOOD VESSELS

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What is perichondrium?

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Dense irregular connective tissue covering hyaline and elastic cartilage. It is vascular and supplies the cartilage chondrocytes with nutrients. Contains chrondroblasts

30
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What is the endosteum?

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Thin connective tissue layer that lines marrow cavity. Dense irregular. Contains osteopregenitor cells

31
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Where is the periosteum present?

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Covering every bone, bar the patella and phalanges, and disappears at articular surfaces

32
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What is the structure of compact bone?

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  • Osteons run parallel to long axis
  • Haversian canal at the middle (containing lymph, vessels, nerve), surrounded by concentric lamellae
  • Lacuna in osteon containing osteocytes. Form canniculi with one another and haversian for nutrients
  • Haversion’s and spongy bone joined by Volkmann’s canal
  • Collagen in each lacuna run in different directions for high torsion strength
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What is an:

  • Osteoblast
  • Osteocyte
  • Osteoclast ?
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Osteoblast: Intermediate cell on endosteum that cannot divide. Lays down osteoid

Osteoclast: Large WBC on endosteum that undergoes resorption of bone, remodelling it. Not in bone itself

Osteocyte: Terminally differentiated cell when osteoblast trapped in osteoid. No longer lays down matrix just maintains tissue.

Osteogenic Cell —> Osteoblast —> Osteocyte

34
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What are the inorganic and organic components of bone matrix and their function?

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Inorganic - 65%.

Calcium, Phosphate, Mg and Al Salts

Resist bending and compressing

Organic - 35%.

Collagen 1, GAGs, proteins like osteocalcin and osteonectin.

Resist pulling and tension forces

35
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What is osteoarthiritis?

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  • Age related degeneration
  • Degeneration of articular cartilage so narrowing of joint space, bone rubs against bone
  • Growth of bony spurs, osteophytes, that cause inflammation and pain
36
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What is rheumatoid arthiritis?

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  • Autoimmune disease
  • Inflammation of synovial membrane, thickening joint capsule
  • Damage to underlying bone and articular cartilage so both degenerate
37
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What does a synovial joint look like with rheumatoid arthiritis?

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