Bones and Cartilage. Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

Content: 
Epigraph, Page ii
Preface, Pages xix-xxii
Abbreviations, Pages xxiii-xxviii
Chapter 1 - Types of Skeletal Tissues, Pages 3-12
Chapter 2 - Bone, Pages 13-32
Chapter 3 - Cartilage, Pages 33-47
Chapter 4 - Invertebrate Cartilages, Pages 51-63
Chapter 5 - Intermediate Tissues, Pages 64-82
Chapter 6 - An Evolutionary Perspective, Pages 83-92
Chapter 7 - Horns and Ossicones, Pages 95-102
Chapter 8 - Antlers, Pages 103-114
Chapter 9 - Tendons and Sesamoids, Pages 115-123
Chapter 10 - Embryonic Stem Cells, Pages 127-137
Chapter 11 - Stem Cells in Adults, Pages 138-145
Chapter 12 - Osteo- and Chondroprogenitor Cells, Pages 149-165
Chapter 13 - Dedifferentiation Provides Progenitor Cells for Jaws and Long Bones, Pages 166-182
Chapter 14 - Dedifferentiation and Urodele Amphibian Limb Regeneration, Pages 183-196
Chapter 15 - Cells to Make and Cells to Break, Pages 197-213
Chapter 16 - Skeletal Origins: Somitic Mesoderm, Pages 217-229
Chapter 17 - Skeletal Origins: Neural Crest, Pages 230-242
Chapter 18 - Epithelial—Mesenchymal Interactions, Pages 243-257
Chapter 19 - The Membranous Skeleton: Condensations, Pages 261-271
Chapter 20 - From Condensation to Differentiation, Pages 272-283
Chapter 21 - Skulls, Eyes and Ears: Condensations and Tissue Interactions, Pages 284-298
Chapter 22 - Chondrocyte Diversity, Pages 301-315
Chapter 23 - Cartilage Diversity, Pages 316-327
Chapter 24 - Osteoblast and Osteocyte Diversity, Pages 328-337
Chapter 25 - Bone Diversity, Pages 338-348
Chapter 26 - Maintaining Differentiated Chondrocytes, Pages 351-357
Chapter 27 - Maintenance Awry — Achondroplasia, Pages 358-366
Chapter 28 - Restarting Mammalian Articular Chondrocytes, Pages 367-374
Chapter 29 - Repair of Fractures and Regeneration of Growth Plates, Pages 375-382
Chapter 30 - Initiating Skeletal Growth, Pages 385-394
Chapter 31 - Form, Polarity and Long-Bone Growth, Pages 395-408
Chapter 32 - Long Bone Growth: A Case of Crying Wolff?, Pages 409-415
Chapter 33 - The Temporomandibular Joint and Synchondroses, Pages 419-428
Chapter 34 - Sutures and Craniosynostosis, Pages 429-439
Chapter 35 - The Limb Field and the AER, Pages 443-457
Chapter 36 - Adding or Deleting an AER, Pages 458-468
Chapter 37 - AERs in Limbed and Limbless Tetrapods, Pages 469-477
Chapter 38 - Axes and Polarity, Pages 481-489
Chapter 39 - Patterning Limb Skeletons, Pages 490-497
Chapter 40 - Before Limbs There Were Fins, Pages 498-510
Chapter 41 - Vertebral Chondrogenesis: Spontaneous or Not?, Pages 513-518
Chapter 42 - The Search for the Magic Bullet, Pages 519-528
Chapter 43 - Tail Buds, Tails and Taillessness, Pages 529-538
Chapter 44 - Evolutionary Experimentation Revisited, Pages 541-558
References, Pages 559-736
Index, Pages 737-760