Week 5 Flashcards
Bones
- Cellular structures in which extracellular fluid is surrounded by a rigid calcified frame
Medullary cavity of bone
Principle location of blood formation
Axial Skeleton
-On long axis of body
- Skull, vertebrae, and bones attached to vertebrae, ribs and ventral connections of ribs and sternum
Appendicular Skeleton
- Bones of front (thoracic) and hind. (pelvic) limbs and respective pectoral girdle and pelvic girdle
Lone bone
- Compact, solid
- Spongy: cancellous
Trabeculae
- Mineralized tissue
- Spongy bone
- Regions between are filled with bone marrow
Epiphysis
- Either extremity of long bone
- Epiphyseal plate composed of hyaline cartilage and represents point of growth in a longitudinal direction; gets replaced by bone in mature bone
Diaphysis
- Cylindrical shaft between two epiphyses
- Contains marrow cavity, where blood cell production occurs
Metaphysis
- Flared part at the end of the diaphyses
Periosteum
- Covers outer surfaces of bone
- Contains osteoblasts/osteoprogenitor cells
Bone composition
- 25% water
- 45% mineral (37% calcium, 18.5% phosphorus)
- 30% organic matter (about 90% collagen)
Osteoblasts
-Deposition of Ca2+ into bone
-Differentiated bone forming cell responsible for producing bone matrix
-Secretes collagen, makes up osteoid
Osteoclasts
-Resorption of Ca2+ from bone
- Large, motile, multi-nucleated bone resorbing cells
- Precursors come from bone marrow and spleen
- Apart of the mononuclear phagocytic system
Ca2+ Deposition and Resorption
-Tightly controlled by hormones
-Osteoblasts and osteoclasts
- Guarantees a rapidly exchangeable pool
What is in the central canal of a bone
- Lymphatic vessel
- Vein and artery
- Nerve
Osteoprogenitor cells
- Innermost layer of periostem, enosteal lining cells of marrow cavity, lining cells of haversian and Volkmann canals
- Stimulation leads to more active osteoblasts
Osteocyte
- Mature bone cell/transformed osteoblast
- Maintain bone matrix, synthesize and resorb matrix to an extent
- Use gap junctions to communicate and respond to hormones
Bone remodeling cycle
- Resorption and formation of bone by osteoclasts and osteoblasts is coupled
1. Osteoclast resorption (initially thick bone is chewed down)
2. Osteoblast activity, matrix formation (osteoid) (bone is built back up from lowest thickness)
3. Mineralization
4. Resting phase
Uncoupled osteoblastogenesis and osteoclastogenesis
Leads to apoptotic osteoclast
Bone formation
- Identified according to environment
- Heteroplastic, endochondral, intramembranous
Heteroplastic
In tissue other than skeleton (penis)
Endochondral
- Develops from cartilage and is mostly preformed in the fetus
- Occurs after birth from cartilage plates of long bone
Intramembranous
- Formed without intervention of cartilage
- Flat bones of skull and face
Long bone growth
- Depends on epiphyseal plate
- 4 zones
- Cartilage does not have blood supply and extracellular fluid provides nutrients
Apposition
-Bone growth that increases the width
- Shaft of bone
Bone remodeling
- Coordinated formation of new bone at outer surfaces
- Resorption of bone at inner surfaces
Types of Bone Remodeling Cycles
- Coupled and balanced bone remodeling (no net change)
- Coupled and unbalanced bone remodeling (some net change)
- Uncoupled bone remodeling (large net change)
Vitamin D background
- Steroid hormone
- Biologically inert and must be converted to 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in liver then 1a,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in kidney
- Works via nuclear Vitamin D receptor