Bones and cartilage : developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology /: developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian K. Hall.
• Other Names: Hall, Brian K (Brian Keith), 1941-
• Contents: Types of skeletal tissues -- Bone -- Cartilage -- Invertebrate cartilages -- Intermediate tissues -- An evolutionary perspective -- Horns and ossicones -- Antlers -- Tendons and sesamoids -- Embryonic stem cells -- Stem cells in adults -- Osteo- and chondroprogenitor cells -- Dedifferentiation provides progenitor cells for jaws and long bones -- Dedifferentiation and urodele amphibian limb regeneration -- Cells to make and cells to break -- Skeletal origins : somitic mesoderm -- Skeletal origins : neural crest -- Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions -- The membranous skeleton : condensations -- From condensation to differentiation -- Skulls, eyes and ears : condensations and tissue interactions -- Chondrocyte diversity -- Cartilage diversity -- Osteoblast and osteocyte diversity -- Bone diversity -- Maintaining differentiated chondrocytes -- Maintenance awry : achondroplasia -- Restarting mammalian articular chondrocytes -- Repair of fractures and regeneration of growth plates -- Initiating skeletal growth -- Form, polarity and long-bone growth -- Long bone growth : a case of crying Wolff? -- The temporomandibular joint and synchondroses -- Sutures and craniosynostosis -- The limb field and the AER -- Adding or deleting an AER -- AERs in limbed and limbless tetrapods -- Axes and polarity -- Patterning limbs and limb skeletons -- Before limbs there were fins -- Vertebral chondrogenesis : spontaneous or not? -- The search for the magic bullet -- Tail buds, tails and tail-lessness -- Evolutionary experimentation revisited.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (792 pages)
• Subjects: 573.76; Bone; Bones -- Physiology; Bones -- Growth; Bone; Bones -- Growth; Bones -- Physiology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080454153; 0080454151
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.