Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Vertebrate skeletal tissues
- Bone
- Vertebrate cartilages
- Invertebrate cartilages, notochordal cartilage and cartilage origins
- Intermediate tissues
- Lessons from fossils
- Horns and ossicones
- Antlers
- Tendon skeletogenesis and sesamoids
- Embryonic stem and progenitor cells
- Stem and progenitor cells in adults
- Bipotential osteochondroprogenitor cells
- Dedifferentiation of chondrocytes and endochondral ossification
- Dedifferentiation and stem cells : regeneration of urodele limbs and mammalian fingertips
- Cells to make and cells to break
- Skeletal origins : somitic mesoderm, vertebrae, pectoral and pelvic girdles
- Skeletal origins : neural crest cells
- Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions initiate skeletogenesis
- The membranous skeleton : condensations
- From condensation to differentiation
- Skulls, eyes and ears : condensations and tissue interactions
- Chondrocyte diversity
- Cartilage diversity
- Osteoblast and osteocyte diversity and osteogenesis in vitro
- Diversity of bone as a tissue and as an organ
- Maintaining differentiated chondrocytes through cell-matrix interactions
- Maintenance awry : chrondrodysplasias and achondroplasia
- Restarting mammalian articular chondrocytes
- Repair of fractured long bones and regeneration of growth plates
- Initiating skeletal growth
- Growth and morphogenesis of long bones
- Long bone growth : a case of crying wolff?
- The temporomandibular joint and cranial synchondroses
- Sutures and craniosynostosis
- The mesodermal limb field and the apical epithelial ridge
- Adding or deleting an apical epithelial ridge
- Limb buds limbed and limbless tetrapods
- Axes and polarity of limb buds and limbs
- Patterning and shaping limb buds and limb skeletons
- Before limbs there were fins
- Vertebral chondrogenesis : cell differentiation and morphogenesis
- Relationships between notochord and vertebral cartilage
- Tail buds, tails and taillessness
- Variation and variability
- Variation outside the norm : neomorphs and atavisms.