Chondrocyte Heterogeneity; It Is the Time to Update the Understanding of Cartilage Histology | ||
| SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Letter to Editor, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2018, Pages 1-3 PDF (191 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/svu.2018.17894 | ||
| Author | ||
| Yasser Ahmed | ||
| Department of Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Chondrocytes were described as one cell populations in most cartilage literature.Two dif-ferent chondrocyte populations; dark and light, were described in the articular cartilage and a third population, adipochondrocytes, wasdescribed in the elastic cartilage. The current literature of cartilage histology should be updatedandhighlight that three different popula-tions of chondrocytes are existed in cartilage | ||
| Keywords | ||
| cartilage; Light chondrocytes; Dark chondrocytes; Adipochondrocytes; Chondrocyte populations | ||
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