2 Cartilage

Cartilage connective tissue forming the skeleton of mammalian embryos before bone formation begins and persisting in parts of the human skeleton into adulthood.

2 cartilage. It makes up 50 of all protein in cartilage and 85 90 of collagen of articular cartilage. All connective tissue types within the human body are derived from the embryonal mesoderm. Type ii collagen is the basis for articular cartilage and hyaline cartilage formed by homotrimers of collagen type ii alpha 1 chains. Classification of cartilage 3 types.

Type of cartilage that is glassy clear and most abundant articular cartilage of most joint larynx trachea bronchi ribs cartilage precursor for bone in the embryo. Cartilage is made up of highly specialized cells called chondrocytes and chondroblasts chondro refers to cartilage and other extracellular material which forms the cartilage matrix. Type ii collagen does form fibrils this fibrillar network of collagen allows cartilage to entrap the proteoglycan aggregate as well as provide tensile strength to. Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue a rubber like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints and nerves and is a structural component of the rib cage the ear the nose the bronchial tubes the intervertebral discs and many other body components it is not as hard and rigid as bone but it is much stiffer and much less flexible than muscle.

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