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Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review ever assembled on the topic. It examines the function, development and evolution of bone and cartilage as tissues, organs and skeletal systems. It describes how bone and cartilage is developed in embryos and are maintained in adults, how bone rea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego, Calif. ; London : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Types of skeletal tissues
  • Bone
  • Cartilage
  • Invertebrate cartilages
  • Intermediate tissues
  • An evolutionary perspective
  • Horns and ossicones
  • Antlers
  • Tendons and sesamoids
  • Embryonic stem cells
  • Stem cells in adults
  • Osteo- and chondroprogenitor cells
  • Dedifferentiation provides progenitor cells for jaws and long bones
  • Dedifferentiation and urodele amphibian limb regeneration
  • Cells to make and cells to break
  • Skeletal origins : somitic mesoderm
  • Skeletal origins : neural crest
  • Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
  • The membranous skeleton : condensations
  • From condensation to differentiation
  • Skulls, eyes and ears : condensations and tissue interactions
  • Chondrocyte diversity
  • Cartilage diversity
  • Osteoblast and osteocyte diversity
  • Bone diversity
  • Maintaining differentiated chondrocytes
  • Maintenance awry : achondroplasia
  • Restarting mammalian articular chondrocytes
  • Repair of fractures and regeneration of growth plates
  • Initiating skeletal growth
  • Form, polarity and long-bone growth
  • Long bone growth : a case of crying Wolff?
  • The temporomandibular joint and synchondroses
  • Sutures and craniosynostosis
  • The limb field and the AER
  • Adding or deleting an AER
  • AERs in limbed and limbless tetrapods
  • Axes and polarity
  • Patterning limbs and limb skeletons
  • Before limbs there were fins
  • Vertebral chondrogenesis : spontaneous or not?
  • The search for the magic bullet
  • Tail buds, tails and tail-lessness
  • Evolutionary experimentation revisited.