Ultrastructural changes associated with the mineralization of deer antler cartilage
作者:
J. W. Newbrey,
W. J. Banks,
期刊:
American Journal of Anatomy
(WILEY Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 166,
issue 1
页码: 1-17
ISSN:0002-9106
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1002/aja.1001660102
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe maturation and mineralization of deer antler cartilage were investigated ultrastructurally by using enzymatic digestions and subsequent staining with ruthenium red (RR) or phosphotungstic acid (PTA).RR staining of matrix granules was observed in the immature prechondroblastic matrix and became more intense as the cartilage matured into a mineralized tissue. The granules got larger and more numerically dense in the mature matrix. There were matrix granules that coalesced around matrix vesicles or remnants of such in the mineralized zone. These granules were observed after demineralization, and they were RR and acidic PTA‐positive (they were not susceptible to hyaluronidase nor trypsin digestion, however). It appears that the granules were modified such that the matrix vesicle formed a centralized nidus for mineralization. The growth of hydroxyapatite crystals along matrix granules (which in this zone may or may not represent proteoglycan monomers) may have caused the coalescence.Microfibrils associated with matrix granules probably represented the hyaluronic acid core of the large proteoglycan complexes because of their susceptibility to hyaluronidase digestio
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