MSS19 Bone Structure, Remodeling And Repair Flashcards
Skeletal system components
- Bones
- Joints + cartilages
2 divisions:
- Axial skeleton:
- skull bones
- auditory ossicles
- hyoid bone
- ribs
- breastbone
- back bones - Appendicular skeleton:
- upper, lower limb bones
- pectoral girdle (clavicle + scapula)
- pelvic girdle
Types of bones (according to shape)
- Long bones (humerus)
- Short bones (trapezoid, wrist bone)
- Flat bones (sternum)
- Irregular bones (vertebra)
- Sesamoid bones (patella)
Bone
- one of the hardest tissue
- Withstand stress (second to cartilage)
- ***Support + Protection
- Muscle attachment: systems of lever –> locomotion / limb movement
- ***Reservoir of Ca / PO4
- Harbours ***Bone marrow
***Bone vs Cartilage
Bone:
- Matrix
- Inorganic (Calcified: hydroxyapatite crystal)
- Organic (Collagen type 1 with proteoglycan and glycoprotein) - Hard
- Highly vascularized
- ***Growth: Appositional only
- Cells: osteoblast, osteoclast, osteocyte
- Covering: Periosteum
- Nutrition: ***Haversian system / osteon (canaliculi)
Cartilage:
- Matrix:
- Non-calcified
- **Collagen type 2 (*hyaline cartilage) - Resilient
- Avascular
- ***Growth: Appositional + Interstitial
- Cells: chondroblasts, chondrocytes
- Covering: Perichondrium
- Nutrition: ***Diffusion through matrix
Appositional growth (外面) vs Interstitial growth (入面)
Bone: only appositional growth (calcified matrix is inexpandible)
- from periosteum + endosteum
Interstitial growth: only possible in cartilage (expandible)
***Bone cells
- Osteoblasts
- Bone forming
- line all bone surfaces
- derived from **Osteoprogenitor cells (骨幹細胞) (from mesenchymal stem cells) in Periosteum / Endosteum
- produce **Organic matrix (Osteoid: Collagen type 1)
- produce **Ca, PO4-based mineral for Osteoid Calcification
- characteristics of cells actively synthesizing protein
- Active stage:
- -> cuboidal to columnar shape
- -> **Basophilic cytoplasm
- -> ***high alkaline phosphatase activity (regulator of mineralisation)
- Inactive stage:
- -> flattened
- -> low alkaline phosphatase activity
- once surrounded by newly synthesized matrix –> Osteocytes - Osteocytes
- **Maintenance of bone matrix (osteocytic osteolysis: transient bone breakdown)
- **trapped inside bone matrix (Lacunae) it produced
- below bone surface (never on bone surface)
- maintain contact with adjacent osteocytes by thin cytoplasm located in **Canaliculi (microscopic canals between the lacunae of ossified bone: nutrition and communication)
- average half life of 25 years
- **incapable of division
- death of osteocytes –> resorption of bone matrix - Osteoclasts
- Bone resorption
- Removal of bone matrix
- **Secrete acid, collagenase, other proteolytic enzymes to resorb bone
- **Large, **multinucleated mobile cells
- from **Granulocyte / Monocyte progenitor cells (吞噬細胞)
- from **Fusion of circulating monocytes
- **Acidophilic cytoplasm
- Ruffled border to ↑ SA of resorption
- in Depressions of bone surfaces (Howship’s lacunae (清除左既痕跡) - resorbed by osteoclasts)
- ***Clear zone: region of cytoplasm that surrounds the ruffled border to isolate the region of osteolytic activity
Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts
- control dynamic balance of bone tissue
- critical in maintenance, remodeling and repairing of bone
Periosteum and Endosteum
- Line ***ALL surfaces of bone (exposed bony surface will be resorbed by osteoclasts)
- Continuous supply of ***osteoblasts (appositional growth)
- Provide nutrition to bone cells (blood vessels in Periosteum)
- Important for growth, remodeling and repairing of bone
Periosteum
- cover external surfaces of bone
- Outer (fibrous) layer: ***Collagen fibres + Fibroblasts
- Inner (cellular) layer: ***Osteoprogenitor cells (differentiate into Osteoblasts: appositional growth)
- Sharpey’s fibres - anchor the periosteum to the bone
Endosteum
- cover internal surface of bone
- line ***marrow cavity
- ***Osteoprogenitor cells (differentiate into osteoblasts: appositional growth)
Types of bone (according to arrangement of collagen fibres)
- Primary bone (immature/woven bone)
2. Secondary bone (mature/lamellar bone)
Primary bone vs Secondary bone
Primary bone:
- Primary bony tissue in:
1. Embryo
2. During bone repairing - ***Random disposition of collagen
- Temporary: will be replaced by secondary bone
Secondary bone:
- Organised ***Lamellar disposition of collagen (一圈一圈)
Types of bone (according to gross structure in cross section)
- Compact bone (cortical bone) ***without cavities
- Cancellous bone (spongy bone) with ***intercommunicating marrow cavities
Most bones are composed of spongy bone at the core covered by compact bone
Compact bone (Cortical bone)
Anatomical / Functional unit: ***Osteon (Haversian system)
- Concentric lamellae of bone surrounding ***Haversian canal (contain blood vessels, nerves, loose CT)
—> Bring nutrition to osteocytes in compact bone (through canaliculi) - ***Transverse Volkmann’s canals: allow osteon to communicate with other osteons and with the marrow cavity (no concentric lamellae)
- Complex pattern due to continuous process of bone remodeling
Cancellous bone (Spongy bone)
Anatomical / Functional unit:
- **Trabecula
- Anastomosing bony ***spicules
- form meshwork of ***intercommunicating spaces
- ***Highly vascular
- contain ***red bone marrow
- weaker, ***more flexible and greater SA
- suitable for metabolic activity
- ***Interconvertible with compact bone