Nodule formation and calcification of mandibular condylar cartilage cell cultures mimic in vivo ultrastructure.

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Nodule formation and calcification of mandibular condylar cartilage cell cultures mimic in vivo ultrastructure.

Acta anatomica - 1 Jan 1994

Engel F E, Swain L D, Dean D D, Boyan B D

Abstract excerpt

Mandibular condylar cartilage (MCC) of growing mammals contains four layers of cells which display a series of increasingly differentiated phenotypes and which culminate in a terminally differentiated cell that produces a calcified matrix. In this study, MCC cells were placed into culture in Dulb...

Topics

Animals
Bone Matrix
Calcification, Physiologic
Calcinosis
Cartilage, Articular
Cell Differentiation
Cells, Cultured
Mandibular Condyle
Microscopy, Electron
Phenotype
Rabbits

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