Cartilage canals in the chicken embryo: Ultrastructure and function

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 453-462

  Blumer, M J F ^a   Fritsch, H ^a   Pfaller, K ^a   Brenner, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone formation; Electron microscopy; Femur; Gallus gallus; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; PROTEOGLYCAN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; CAPILLARY; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FEMUR; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOID; PERICHONDRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CARTILAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE II; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMUR; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGANOGENESIS; OSTEOGENESIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 1642315194     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-003-0363-0     Document Type: Article

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