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Cartilage Flashcards

1
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What cells produce cartilage?

A

Chondroblasts

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Is cartilage vascular or avascular?

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Avascular

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What are the three types of cartilage?

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  1. Hyaline
  2. Elastic
  3. Fibrocartilage
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4
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What is different about cartilage compared to other CT?

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Elastic, but firm

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What type of fibers does cartilage contain?

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Fine, collagen fibrils

Do not stain well

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6
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What type of fibers does elastic cartilage have?

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Fine collagen

Elastic fibers

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What type of fibers are present in fibrocartilage?How are these arranged?

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Parallel collagen bundles

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8
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What is the most common type of cartilage?

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Hyalin

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9
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How does hyaline cartilage appear?

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Glassy, to whitish/bluish

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10
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Where is hyaline cartilage found?

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  1. In places where is maintains a lumen (nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi)
  2. At articular surfaces of bones
  3. at epiphyseal plates of growing bones
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11
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: the nose

A

hyaline cartilage

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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: the larynx

A

hyaline cartilage

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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: trachea

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hyaline cartilage

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14
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What type of collagen would you expect to find in: bronchi

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hyaline cartilage

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15
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: the ventral ends of the ribs

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hyaline cartilage

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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: shoulder, hip, elbow, knee

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hyaline cartilage

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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: epiphiseal plates?

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hyaline cartilage

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18
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What is histogenesis?

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Growth of hyaline cartilage

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19
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What are condrification centers?

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future cartilage sites

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20
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What type of cells form condrification centers?

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Mesenchymal cells

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21
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What shape are mesenchymal cells?

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Stellate, but turn into round

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22
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What cells synthesize the ECM? What type of cells give rise to this type?

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Chondroblasts, which come from mesenchymal cells

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23
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What are lacunea?

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“Bubbles” within the ECM formed by chondroblasts, where chondroblasts reside

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24
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What is the first step in synthesizeing the EMC of hyaline cartilage?

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Mesenchymal cells retract their bodies from a stellate formation to a circular

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What are chondrocytes?

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Chondroblasts that have surrounded themselves with the ECM of hyaline cartilage

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26
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What are isogenous groups?

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2-4 groups of cells that all spawned from a single cell, and reside in the same lacunae

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27
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What is interstitial growth?

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When isogenous groups divide, synthesize more ECM, and cause the hyaline cartilage to grow

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28
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What is the perichondrium?

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The membrane that surrounds ONLY hyaline and elastic cartilage

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29
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The perichondrium is derived from what cell type?

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Mesenchyme

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30
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Fibroblasts spawn from what type of cells? What do they synthesize?

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Spawn from mesenchyme.

Synthesize collagen

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31
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What are the two layers of the pericondrium?

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Inner layer which is cellular

Outer layer which is fiberous (collagen I)

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32
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What is present in the outer layer of perichondrium?

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Collagen I
fibroblasts
blood vessels
Nerves

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33
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What is present in the inner layer of the perichondrium?

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Condrogenic cells (divide to form chondroblasts)

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34
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What are chondrogenic cells?

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Cells that will eventually turn into chondroblasts

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35
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How does cartilage grow?

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on the surface of an existing cartilage, known as appositional growth

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36
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What is appositional growth?

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When a cell layer grows on top of old layers (pushing it outwards)

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37
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Does cartilage tissue contain blood vessels?

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No

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38
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How does the inner cell layer get nutrition if there are no blood vessels?

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Perichondrium supplies it, and since the inner cell layer is hydrated, is diffuses

39
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How does the perichondirum keep the growth of the inner cell layer in check?

A

By how far diffusion of nutrients will go in the inner cell layer

40
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What is the general function of the outer cell layer of the perichondrium? Inner?

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Outer = protection
Inner = growth
41
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What are the two ways in which cartilage grows?

A

interstitially and appositionally

42
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When does interstitial growth occur in hyaline cartilage (3)?

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  1. during the early stages of cartilage formation
  2. in articular cartilage (which does not have a perichondrium)
  3. in epiphyseal plates
43
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What is intersitial growth?

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When cell growth occurs from within the cartilage

44
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What is appositional growth?

A

Cell growth the occurs on the surface of cartilage?

45
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Where does appositional growth take place?

A

In most cartilages

46
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When does appositional growth occur in cartilage?

A

Throughout the lifespan of the cartilage

47
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Interstitial growth occurs from what type of cells?

A

isogenous groups

48
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What type of cell is responsible for appositional growth of cartilage?

A

Chondroblasts

49
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True or false: there is no perichondrium at the ends of growth plates?

50
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Chondrogenic cells arise from what type of cells?

A

Mesenchymal cells

51
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Chondrogenic cells can differentiate into what two types of cells?

A

Chondroblasts (cartilage forming)

Osteoprogenitor cells (bone-forming cells)

52
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Can chondrogenic cells synthesize cartilage?

53
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Where are chondrogenic cells found?

A

Condrification centers

The deep layer of the perichondrium

54
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What is the function of chondrocytes?

A

Maintain matrix

55
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Chondroblasts function as what?

A

Forming the matrix and the fibers of cartilage

56
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True or false: chondrocytes have a small nucleus, and a small or absent nucleolus?

57
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What does the hyaline cartilage matrix contain?

A

Collagen II
proteoglycans
glyoproteins
ECF

58
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Where is the ECF in the hyaline cartilage matrix

A

Hydrating the collagen proteoglycans

59
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Is collagen stretchable?

60
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What are hyaluronan molecules?

A

hyluronic acid that forms the backbone onto which proteoglycans stick

61
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What property does the interweaving of hyaluronan molecules supply the matrix?

A

Shock absorption / resilience

62
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What percentage of water is located in the intercellular proteoglycan aggregates?

63
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What percentage of the cartilage volume is made up of the extracellular matrix?

64
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What forms a capsule around each of the cells in an isogenous group (4)?

A

Tyoe VI collagen, Hyaluronan, glycoproteins,

Sulfated proteoglycans

65
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What is the stain affinity of the capsule that surrounds the isogenous groups?

A

Basophilic

66
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What surrounds each group of isogenous cells? What is the difference between the composition of the capsular matrix, and this?

A

Territorial matrix

Same composition except for lower sulfated proteoglycans

67
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What surrounds the territorial matrix? What is the composition if it?

A

Interterritorial matrix

Same composition of the territorial matrix, but more dilute

68
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The cartilage matrix consists of what percentage of water that is bound to proteoglycans.

69
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Does hyaline cartilage have nerve fibers?

70
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What happens to the hyaline cartilage as we age?

71
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Where is elastic cartilage found (4)?

A

ear
auditory tubes
epiglottis
larynx

72
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What are the two types of fibers present in elastic cartilage?

A

Collagen II

Elastic fibers

73
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What is the color of elastic cartilage?

74
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Where are elastic fibers found within the elastic cartilage?

A

Territorial matrix

75
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Does elastic cartilage calcify with aging?

76
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What function does fibrocartilage serve?

A

transition between dense connective tissue and hyaline cartilage

77
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What is mostly present in the matrix of fibrocartilage?

A

Collagen I

78
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Does fibrocartilage have a perichondrium?

79
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: the intervertebral discs (the annulus fibrosus specifically)?

A

fibrocartilage

80
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: the pubic symphysis?

A

fibrocartilage

81
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: articular discs (e.g. TMJ)

A

fibrocartilage

82
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find in: menisci of the knee joint?

A

fibrocartilage

83
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What type of cartilage would you expect to find attached to bone?

A

fibrocartilage

84
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How are the condrocytes arranged in fibrocartilage?

A

in rows, squeezed between collagen bundles

85
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What are fibroblasts?

A

proteoglycan secreting cells found in the fibrocartilage. These turn into chondrocytes when surrounded by matrix

86
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What is osteoarthritis?

A

The breakdown of hyaline cartilage at joints (d/t lower hydration of the GAGs causes fissures)

87
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What is the protein that allows for chondroblasts and chondrocytes to stay connected to the ECM?

A

Fibronectin

88
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What are the only two types of cartilage that have a perichondrium?

A

Hyaline and elastic. NOT FIBROUS

89
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Chondrogenic cells can differentiate into what two cells?

A

chondroblasts and osteoprogenitor cells

90
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Chondroblasts can differentiate from what two types of cells?

A

mesenchymal cells

Chondrogenic cells

91
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Are chondroblats acidophilic or basophilic?

A

basophilic

92
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True or false: chondrocytes can go back to being chondroblasts?

93
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What is the function of fibronectin?

A

Allows chondroblasts and chondrocyte to adhere to the ECM

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