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Ultrastructure of Skeletal Tissues

Bone and Cartilage in Health and Disease

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. E. Bonucci

    1. Department of Human Biopathology, Faculty of Medicine, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy

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  2. P. M. Motta

    1. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy

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Part of the book series: Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine (EMBM, volume 7)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The ultrastructure of calcified tissues: Methods and technical problems

    • A. Larry Arsenault
    Pages 1-18

  3. The original contributions of the scanning electron microscope to the knowledge of bone structure

    • Gastone Marotti
    Pages 19-39

  4. Collagen mineralization: Aspects of the structural relationship between collagen and the apatitic crystallites

    • H. J. Höhling, Rudolf H. Barckhaus, Ernst-R. Krefting, Jörg Althoff, Peter Quint
    Pages 41-62

  5. Ultrastructural immunohistochemistry of noncollagenous proteins in calcified tissues

    • Paolo Bianco
    Pages 63-78

  6. Ultrastructure of cartilage

    • Ernst B. Hunziker, Wolfgang Herrmann
    Pages 79-109

  7. Ultrastructural cytochemistry of cartilage proteoglycans and their relation to the calcification process

    • Minoru Takagi
    Pages 111-127

  8. Ultrastructural localization of calcium in normal and pathologic cartilage

    • Dina Lewinson, Michael Silbermann
    Pages 129-152

  9. Glucocorticoid effects on the ultrastructure of epiphyseal cartilage

    • Lyle C. Dearden
    Pages 153-171

  10. Ultrastructural aspects of osteochondrodysplasias

    • Ernesto Ippolito, Jerry A. Maynard, Angiola Pedrini-Mille, Vittorio Pedrini
    Pages 173-188

  11. The ultrastructure of the cartilaginous tumors

    • Francisco J. Martinez-Tello, Miguel A. Martinez-Gonzalez
    Pages 189-207

  12. The electron microscopic structure of the osteoblast

    • Johannes P. Scherft, Cornelis G. Groot
    Pages 209-222

  13. The ultrastructure of the osteocyte

    • Ermanno Bonucci
    Pages 223-237

  14. Ultrastructural biology and pathology of the osteoclast

    • Sandy C. Marks Jr, Steven N. Popoff
    Pages 239-252

  15. The ultrastructural effects of parathyroid-hormone, calcitonin, and vitamin D on bone

    • Steven E. Weisbrode, Charles C. Capen
    Pages 253-269

  16. The ultrastructure of bone tumors

    • German C. Steiner
    Pages 271-291

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 293-299
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About this book

The calcified tissues have fundamental functions in the biology of organisms, not only because their strength, solidity, and elasticity permit movement and mechanical activities, and protect soft tissues against traumatic forces, but also on account of their role in mineral homeostasis. For this reason, extensive investigation in the last 30 years has provided much to explain the complex chemical and physical processes occurring in cells and matrices composing the skeleton, and their alterations in pathological conditions. The use of ultrastructural methods such as immunocytochemistry, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, cytoautoradiography, freeze/fracture etching, high voltage, etc. has proven to be of great value when applied to cells and matrix components of bone and cartilage, in spite of the technical difficulties due to the hardness of these tissues. However, available information on this subject is disseminated in a variety of scientific and medical articles. This volume is an attempt to collect together the most significant data on the ultrastructure of cartilage and bone in normalcy and pathology. Obviously, it cannot be a complete report of all these data, its principal aim being that of: a) giving a comprehensive statement of the results concerning the basic structures common to these tissues, especially collagen fibrils, noncollagenous proteins, and proteoglycans, and their relationships with the mineral substance (for which another volume of this series can also be consulted; see Ruggeri A. , Motta P. M. (eds.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Biopathology, Faculty of Medicine, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy

    E. Bonucci

  • Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy

    P. M. Motta

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ultrastructure of Skeletal Tissues

  • Book Subtitle: Bone and Cartilage in Health and Disease

  • Editors: E. Bonucci, P. M. Motta

  • Series Title: Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1487-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0373-2Published: 30 April 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1487-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 300

  • Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anatomy, Orthopedics

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