SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences (Aug 2018)

Chondrocyte Heterogeneity; It Is the Time to Update the Understanding of Cartilage Histology

  • Yasser A. Ahmed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21608/svu.2018.17894
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Chondrocytes were described as one cell populations in most cartilage literature.Two different chondrocyte populations; dark and light, were described in the articular cartilage and a third population, adipochondrocytes, was described in the elastic cartilage. The current literature of cartilage histology should be updated and highlight that three different populations of chondrocytes are existed in cartilage.

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