Clinical History
Cartilages can grow through the division of chondrocytes and through the division of progenitor cells located in the ordinary connective tissue surrounding most cartilages (called the perichondium). The new chondrocytes produced in either way will synthezie more extracellular matrix to add to the amount of cartilage present. These slides show the basic features of growth by the division of chondrocytes (called interstitial growth) and by the differentiation of chondrocytes form progenitor cells (called appositional growth).
Labels in this Slide:
- Chondrocytes
- Cell nest
- Territorial matrix
- Perichondrium
- Fibroblast
