- Discussion: (see cartilage menu)
- chondrocytes occupy lacunae distributed through the matrix;
- chondrocytes are spherical in deep portion, but are flattened toward the periphery of cartilage;
- peripheral lacuna may house a single chondrocyte;
- deeper lacunae may contain two or more chondrocytes;
- Histology:
- young chondrocytes and chondroblasts have rounded nuclei & may have more than one nucleoli;
- cytoplasm contains elongated mitochondria, a well-developed Golgi apparatus, & varying amounts of glycogen, & occasional lipid droplets
Quantitation of chondrocyte performance in growth-plate cartilage during longitudinal bone growth.
Elaboration of neutral proteoglycanase by growth-plate tissue cultures.