Epiphyseal and physeal cartilage vascularization: A light microscopic and tritiated thymidine autoradiographic study of cartilage canals in newborn and young postnatal rabbit bone

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 140-148

  Shapiro, Frederic ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage canals; Epiphyseal cartilage; Physeal cartilage; Tritiated thymidine; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYSEAL CARTILAGE; EPIPHYSIS; FEMUR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FEMUR; GROWTH PLATE; HUMERUS; RABBITS; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031708410     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199809)252:1<140::AID-AR12>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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