Bones and Cartilage: Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

Libro de Brian K. Hall (2005)

Contenido general:

Part I Skeletal Tissues

1 Types of Skeletal Tissues
2 Bone
3 Cartilage

Part II Natural Experiments

4 Invertebrate Cartilages
5 Intermediate Tissues
6 An Evolutionary Perspective

Part III Unusual Modes of Skeletogenesis

7 Horns and Ossicones
8 Antlers
9 Tendons and Sesamoids

Part IV Stem Cells

10 Embryonic Stem Cells
11 Stem Cells in Adults

Part V Skeletogenic Cells

12 Osteo- and Chondroprogenitor Cells
13 Dedifferentiation Provides Progenitor Cells for Jaws and Long Bones
14 Dedifferentiation and Urodele Amphibian Limb Regeneration
15 Cells to Make and Cells to Break

Part VI Embryonic Origins

16 Skeletal Origins: Somitic Mesoderm
17 Skeletal Origins: Neural Crest
18 Epithelial–Mesenchymal Interactions

Part VII Getting Started

19 The Membranous Skeleton: Condensations
20 From Condensation to Differentiation
21 Skulls, Eyes and Ears: Condensations and Tissue Interactions

Part VIII Similarity and Diversity

22 Chondrocyte Diversity
23 Cartilage Diversity
24 Osteoblast and Osteocyte Diversity
25 Bone Diversity

Part IX Maintaining Cartilage in Good Times and Bad

26 Maintaining Differentiated Chondrocytes
27 Maintenance Awry – Achondroplasia
28 Restarting Mammalian Articular Chondrocytes
29 Repair of Fractures and Regeneration of Growth Plates

Part X Growing Together

30 Initiating Skeletal Growth
31 Form, Polarity and Long-Bone Growth
32 Long Bone Growth: A Case of Crying Wolff?

Part XI Staying Apart

33 The Temporomandibular Joint and Synchondroses
34 Sutures and Craniosynostosis

Part XII Limb Buds

35 The Limb Field and the AER
36 Adding or Deleting an AER
37 AERs in limbed and limbless tetrapods

Part XIII Limbs and Limb Skeletons

38 Axes and Polarity
39 Patterning Limb Skeletons
40 Before Limbs There Were Fins

Part XIV Backbones and Tails

41 Vertebral Chondrogenesis: Spontaneous or Not?
42 The Search for the Magic Bullet
43 Tail Buds, Tails and Taillessness

Part XV Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

44 Evolutionary Experimentation Revisited