Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, [2015]
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.