Cartilage Part 1 Flashcards
What type of tissue is cartilage?
Connective
Is cartilage avascular or vascular?
Avascular
What is made of collagen type 2, elastic fibers, ground substance, and water?
Cartilage
What does articular hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage lack?
Perichondrium
What is the most common type of cartilage?
Hyaline
What type of cartilage in the growth plate is responsible for interstitial growth in the bone?
Hyaline
What has alternating lathers of collagen type 2 and collagen type 1?
Fibrocartilage
In the extracellular matrix, what matrix is low in GAG and has pale stain?
Inter territorial
What in the extracellular matrix is high in GAG and has dark stain?
Territorial matrix
What cells reside in the perichondrium,
Produce extracellular matric,
Trapped in the extracellular matrix
Mature into chondrocytes?
Chondroblasts
What is a peripheral layer of vascularized, dense, irregular connective tissue that surrounds hyaline and elastic cartilage?
Perichondrium
What has 2-4 chondrocyte in small clusters within the same lacunae due to cell division?
Isogenous group of hyaline cartilage