Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, [2005]
Subjects:
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