Resorption of calcified cartilage as seen in Meckel's cartilage of rats
Resorption of calcified cartilage as seen in Meckel's cartilage of rats
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大鼠梅克尔软骨中钙化软骨的吸收
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发表时间:
1973
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通讯作者:
C. Asling
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I. Savostin‐Asling;C. Asling
In rats, a portion of Meckel's cartilage — that lying within the mandible but proximal to the rostral convergence of the bars — gives rise to no definitive structures. It offers especially favorable opportunity to study cartilage resorption. By the eighteenth fetal day it is established as a hyaline cartilage bar, and a thin perichondral bone shell starts to form on its lateral aspect, completing encirclement in the next two days. On day 19 cartilage within this bone shows chondrocyte hypertrophy, lacunar enlargement, and matrix calcification. Osteoclasts open a fenestra laterally in the bone and commence removal of calcified cartilage matrix. The erosion front expands rapidly, moving medially (preceded by cartilage hypertrophy and calcification) and extending proximally and distally along the segment. Chondroclasts (multinucleated cells identical with osteoclasts) dominate the erosion front. Capillaries and various mononucleated cells follow. Bone formation is much delayed except in the most rostral extremity, so that, contrary to the situation in endochondral osteogenesis, one is examining calcified cartilage resorption in uncomplicated form. This resorption, including the perichondral bone shell, is virtually complete by day 21, and intramembranous bony reorganization of the site is in progress at birth.