Session 11: Tissues of the cartilage and the bone Flashcards
Name the 3 types of fibers found in cartilage.
- Collagen II in hyaline cartilage
- Collagen I & II found in fibrocartilage
- Collagen II found in elastic cartilage
What are the 2 components of intervertebral discs?
- Annulus fibrosis
2. Nucleus pulposis
What are the general characteristics of hyaline cartilage?
- Homogenous amorphous matrix
- Can calcify
- Perichondrium
- Type II collagen fiber
What are the general characteristics of hyaline cartilage?
- Homogenous amorphous matrix
- Calcification
- Perichondrium
- Type II collagen fiber
Name 7 places in the body where hyaline cartilage can be found.
- Fetal skeleton
- Articular cartilage
- Tip of nose
- Costal cartilage
- C-shaped trachea cartilage
- In bronchi and larynx
- Epiphyseal growth plates
What are the general characteristics of elastic cartilage?
- Pliable
- Elastic fibers and lamellae in matrix
- Type II collagen fibers
- Perichondrium
- NO calcification
Name the 4 locations of elastic cartilage.
- Auricle of ear
- External acoustic meatus
- Eustachian tube
- Epiglottis of the larynx
What are the characteristics of fibrocartilage?
- Combine w/ dense connective tissue
- Collagen type I & II
- Single chondrocytes
- No perichondrium
- Calcification
What are the 7 locations of fibrocartilage?
- Intervertebral discs
- Symphysis pubis
- Articular disc of sternoclavicular joint
- Articular disc of temperomandibular joint
- Menisci of knee joint
- Fibrocartilage complex of wrist
- Where tendons attach to bone
What are the two types of cartilaginous growth?
- Appositional growth
2. Interstitial growth
What is the function of appositional growth?
Forms new cartilage at the surface of existing cartilage and is from perichondrium
What are the 3 steps of appositional growth?
- Fibroblasts in fibrous layer divide mitotically
- Chondroblast in cell rich layer of perichondrium secrete cartilage matrix
- Chondrocytes in lacunae in cartilage
What is the function of interstitial growth?
Forms new cartilage within existing cartilage from chondrocytes
What are the 3 steps of interstitial growth?
- Chondrocytes in lacunae divide mitotically
- Daughter cells in original single lacunae secrete cartilage matrix and daughter cells in own lacunae form isogenic group
- Increase of cartilage from within
Why does cartilage have poor recovery after injury?
- Avascular
- Immobile chondrocytes
- Limited proliferative ability
- Normally repair w/ dense CT
- area is filled w/ scar tissue and not cartilage