LEC 7 - Bone Flashcards
What are the three cell types responsible in the maintaince and construction of bone?
Osteoblasts
Osteocytes
Osteoclasts
Where do osteoclasts orginate from?
Hematopoietic stem cells
What is the function of osteoclasts?
Responsible for bone resorption
Attach to mineralized bone surface
Where are osteocytes located?
Osteoblasts that have been surrounded bu mineralized osteoid
Occupying small clear spaces called lacunae
Where do osteoblasts arise from?
Mesenchymal cells
What is the function of osteoblasts?
Initiate mineralization
Produce matrix
Initiate resorption of the resorption by osteoclasts
What do osteocytes and osteoblasts control together?
Calcium homeostatisis
In what direction does bone grow?
In length by intersitial growth
Within metaphyseal growth plates
Describe: Endochondral ossification
Process in which bone desposited at mineralized longitudinal septa of the physes
How many zones are there in the physes?
3
What are the three physeal zones?
Resting
Proliferative
Hypertrophic
Describe: Resting Zone
Source cells for proliferative zone
Describe: Proliferative zone
Cell multiply
Accumulate glycogen
Produce matrix and become arranged in longitudinal columns
Describe: Hypertrophic zones
Chondrocytes secrete macromolecules to allow capillary invasion and initiate matrix calcification
What are the two sub-zones of hypertrophic zones?
Maturation
Degeneration
Calcification
How does growth of epihysis occur?
Endochondral ossification at articular-epiphyseal complexes
(AEC)
What is the AEC composed of?
Articular cartilage
Subajacent temporary growth cartilage
How does bone grow in width?
Intermembranous bone formation
What is the surfaces of bone covered by?
periosteom
What is periosteom made from?
Loosely attached membrane
Outer fibrous layer = structural support
Innter osteogenic layer = normal lamellar apossitional bone
What type of bone is laid down in response to injury?
Abnormal woven bone
What hormonal agents are released in response to insult on the bone?
Calcitrol
PTH
What are two examples of disruption of endochondral ossification?
Growth arrest lines
Growth retardation lattice
Describe: Growth arrest lines
Multiple nutrient deficiencies cause the growth plate to become narrow
Metaphyseal face of the plate can be sealed by layer of bone
= transverse trabeculation
Describe: Growth retardation lattice
Impairment of osteoclastic resporption of bone within primary trabeculae
= retention primary trabeculae
they then elongate because of continous EO
What does tension cause to the bone?
Resporption
What does compression cause to the bone?
Bone formation
Describe: Wolff’s Law
Ability of bone to change its shape and size to accomodate altered mechanical use
What happens with normal mechanical use?
Suppression of resorptive activity = maintaince of bone mass
What happens when there is a decrease in mechanical use of a bone?
Bone resorption = less mass
What happens with increased mechanical use of the bone?
Increased bone mass
Describe: Woven bone
Newly formed
Hypercellular bone deposited in reaction to injury
When is woven bone normal?
Young animals
When is woven bone pathologic?
Adult animals
What does woven bone look like in histiologically?
Collagen fibers randomly arranged
More numerous osteocytes
Osteocytes are larger
How does injured periosteum resond to injury?
Forms bone
What is reactive periosteal woven bone mostly made of?
Cartilage
What decides the production of cartilage from the injured periosteum?
Avalibility of oxygen
Low = cartilage predominates
What can happen to the cartilage once it is from in a low tension oxygen environment?
Endochondral ossification
What are the two paths that reactive woven bone can occur?
Remodeled lamellar bone
– or –
Removed by osteoclastic resorption
Describe: Osteophytes
New bone that occurs in response to joint injury/instability
What can occur with infectious inflammation of the periosteum?
Marked osteoclastic bone resorption at the periosteal surface
What is the problem with the articular cartilage responding to injury?
Minimal capacity of repair due to no blood supply
What happens with erosion of the cartilage?
Clusters of chondrocytes form
What happens if the erosion of the cartilage extends to the subchondral bone?
Mesenchymal cells access teh area and become quickly filled with vascular fibrous CT
What are the causes of sterile injury to the articular cartilage?
Trauma
Joint instability
Lubrication failure
What activates MMP’s?
Products of degenerating/reactive chondrocytes
– and –
Inflammatory cells
What is the function of MMP’s?
Digest the matrix
What is the mechanism by which the loss of proteoglycans lead to mechanical injury of the cartilage?
Alters hydraulic permeability
Abnormal joint lubrication
Increases susceptibility to mechanical injury
What does the surface of the articular cartilage look like when there is damage?
Surface is yellow-brown
Dull, slightly roughended appearance
Term: Fibrillation
Condensed + fray collagen ibers due to loss of proteoglycans
Term: Eburnation
Smooth + Shiny surface of subchondral bone after cartilage ulceration
How does the synovium respond to injury?
Villous hypertrophy + hyperplasia
Synoviocyte hypertrophy + hyperplasia
Pannus formation
Describe: Pannus
Fibrovascular + Histocytic tissue
Arises from synovial membranes
Spreads over articular cartilage
What is the mechanism by which pannus causes the fusion of joints?
Histocytes + Callagenases from fibroblasts
lead to lysis and destruction of underlying cartilage
Fibrous Tissues unite the surfaces = Fibrous ankyloses
Describe: Rickets
Affects bone and epiphyseal cartilage
Describe: Osteomalacia
Effects bones only
What is the cause of rickets and osteomalacia?
Vitamin D + Phosphorus deficency
What is rickets and osteomalacia?
Failure of mineralization with subsequent bone deformaties + fractures
Growing skeleton = Rickets
Adult Skeleton = Osteomalacia
What is the pathogenesis of Rickets and osteomalacia?
Vitamin D deficiency
Hypercalcemia
Stimulates secreation of parathyroid hormone
renal phosphorus loss is enhanced
Reduce the deposition of calcium further
What lesions are seen with rickets?
Diffuse, irregular thickened growth plates
Most common at the costo-chondral junctions
aka Rachitic rosary
What lesions are seen with osteomalacia?
Accumulation of microfractures or fractures
What lesions are seen in both rickets and osteomalacia?
Cortical bone can be softened
Increased depostion of osteoid in trabecular zone
Describe: Fibrous osteodystrophy
Increased, widespread osteoclastic resorption of bone
Replacement by primitive fibro-osseus tissue
= weak bones
What can cause primary fibrous osteodystrophy?
Pituitary adenoma
Carcinoma
Hyperplasa
What can cause secondary fibrous osteodystrophy?
Hyperparathyroidism
(nurtritional or renal)
– and –
Pseudohyperparathyroidism
What is the pathogenesis of fibrous osteodystrophy caused by increased PTH?
promotes excretion of phosphorous + retention of calcium