The growth plate is divided into several distinct regions, each populated with cartilage cells (chondrocytes) displaying characteristic behaviors. Nearest the heads of the bone is a germinal zone ...

but the results could provide a model for therapies to help stimulate cartilage repair in human growth-plate injuries. He said these were probably 10–15 years off as they needed to be combined ...

Physiological extracellular matrix (ECM) calcification or mineralization is restricted to bones, teeth and the hypertrophic zone of growth plate cartilage. In contrast, pathological ECM ...

Cartilage development is the formation of ... modeling key developmental stages of bone development and growth plate-like structures. Vertebrate skeletogenic cells of different embryonic origins ...