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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Cartilage
• Light chondrocytes
• Dark Chondrocytes
• Adipo-chondrocytes
• Chondrocyte populations