Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 and deleting an AER
- AER's in limbed and limbless tetrapods
- Axes and polarity
- Patterning limb skeletons
- Before limbs there were fins
- Vertebral chondrogenesis : spontaneous or not?
- The search for the magic bullet
- Tail buds, tails and tailessness
- Evolutionary experimentation revisted