BIOL 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hyaline Cartilage, Elastic Cartilage, Chondroitin Sulfate

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Cartilage
80% is made up of water
the 2 kinds of cartilage cells are chondroblast (produce the cartilage and lay it out) and
chondrocyte (help to maintain the cartilage)
they can endure great stress because of the water in the matrix
it is avascular, except for the perichondrium. the perichondrium is how the cartilage gets its
blood supply. the perichondrium is vascularized and there is a diffusion of its materials. this is why its so
much more difficult for cartilage to heal (compared to bone, which is highly vascularized).
the matrix for cartilage consists of the ground substance (hyaluronic acid, and chondroitin
sulfate)
the 2 fibers in cartilage are the collagenous fibers and elastic fibers
along the very surface of all cartilage lies the perichondrium. the depressions in them are called
lacunae. this is little depressions, that are filed with interstitial fluids and floating within that is the
chondrocytes.
perichondrium is Dense Irregular Connective Tissue that surrounds surface and is responsible for
growth/maintenance of cartilage. the periosteum does the same thing in mature bones.
the growth and maintenance of cartilage is occurred by a process that is known as
apposition/appositional.
appositional growth - growth by the addition of new layers onto those previously formed.
appositional growth allows for increase in the girth
3 types of cartilage
hyaline - gets its name from being made up of very fine collagenous fibers. it is those fibers that
give it a glass appearae. it is the ost idel distriuted artilage i od. it is foud i ost of the
embryonic skeleton. (skeletal system starts mostly as cartilage, but over a period of time becomes bone,
a few limited areas weren't cartilage, but were fibrous CT) hyaline cartilages is at both end of long bones
(epiphysis) that spews off osteoblast to produce more bone. known as epiphyseal plate/growth plate -
those reaiig segets of halie artilage that reais i oe util log/height groth eds. it
then becomes the epiphyseal line (when long growth ends). this kind of cartilage also covers the
surfaces of long bones - articular cartilage. the tip of the nose is hyaline cartilage. hyaline cartilage also
connects the ribs to the sternum (costal cartilage). 9 cartilages that make up voice box, and 8 of those 9
are hyaline. also, trachea has hyaline cartilage.
fibrocartilage (135, 175) - made up of coarse, very thick collagenous fibers. made up in parallel
udles that gie it a grai appearance. it is not as smooth as hyaline cartilage. they can take and
sustain great compression. found in intervertebral disk. found in the knee joint, the meniscus as well.
elastic cartilage (135, 175) - it does resemble hyaline EXCEPT it has more elastic fibers. it has
more elastin. these are found in your external ear, the auditory tube (eustachian tube). it is the 9th and
final cartilage of the voice box, known as the epiglottis.
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