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 reappears when we break a leg, or even regenerates when a newt grows a new limb, or a lizard a tail. This book also looks at the molecules and cells that make bones and cartilages and how they differ in various parts of the body and across species. It answers such questions as "Is bone a
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9780123190604, 9780080454153, 9781280641350, 9786610641352, 0123190606, 0080454151, 1280641355, 6610641358
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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
English
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