skeletal connective tissue Flashcards
what are the characteristics of cartilages
- avascular
- contain perichondrium
- few cells
- extracellular matrix (95%)
what are the functions of cartilages
- movement - joins bones firmly together
- support - maintain shape of organs
- growth - hyaline cartilage is responsible for longitudinal growth of long bones
what are the types of cartilage
- hyaline
- elastic
- fibrocartilage
what are the types of bone
- primary/ immature or woven
- secondary, mature or lamellar
what is the histogenesis of cartilaginous tissue
- mesenchymal cells
- mitotic division of mesenchyme leads to thickening
- chondroblasts produce extracellular matrix
- division of chondroblasts produce chondrocytes
what is the perichondrium
- connective tissue covering cartilage
- located on all surfaces of cartilage apart from articular surface and fibrous cartilage
what is the function of the perichondrium
- anchoring point for ligaments and tendons
- nutritional source
- source of stem cells for growth and repair for the cartilage
what are the layers of the perichondrium
- outer fibrous later
- inner chondrogenic layer
what does the outer fibrous layer of the perichondrium contain and do
- contains collagen fibres, fibroblasts and blood vessels
- provide the attachment site for other structures
- source of nutrients for avascular cartilage matrix
what does the inner chondrogenic layer of the perichondrium contain and do
- contains chondroblast which actively secrete the matrix
- important for appositional growth
what the two types of growth of the cartilage
- appositional - growth from periphery
- interstitial - growth from inside
what is interstitial growth
- growth from the inside
- mitosis of cells within the matrix
- results in clusters of chondrocytes called cell nests or isogenous groups
what is appositional growth
- growth from the periphery
- growth of the chondroblasts within the perichondrium
what is the structure of cartilaginous tissue
- cells - chondroblasts and chondrocytes
- extracellular matrix - fibres and ground substance
what is the differentiation of cells to form chondrocyte
chondroprogenitor cell ( mesechymal stem cells) —-> chondrobast —> chondrocyte
what fibres are present in cartilage
- type 2 - only in cartilage
- type 6,9,11 - in collagen and elastic fibres
what are the amorphous ground substances
- proteoglycans - hyaluronan, chondroitin sulfate and keratin sulfate
- glycosaminoglycans and water - rigidity
- multi adhesive glicoproteins - anchorin CII, tenansin and fibronectin
what happens to cartilage when the amount of keratin sulfate increases
increases firmness
what is the capsular (pericellular) matrix
ring of more densely stained matrix located immediately around each chondrocyte
- contains only type 6 cartilage
what is the interterritorial matrix
matrix does not directly surround the cell and is present in greater quantity
what is the territorial matrix
cartilage directly surrounds the chondrocytes, stains at high intensity
where is hyaline cartilage found
- major part of fetal skeleton
- surface of joins and synchondroses of the skull base
- rib cartilages
- large laryngeal cartilage
- nasal cartilages
what are the structural features of hyaline cartilage
- presence of isogenous groups of chondrocytes
- ground substance contains a dense network of collagen fibres
- contain perichondrium
what is articular cartilage
hyaline cartilage on the articular surfaces of bones