Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated within a cartilage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Physiol.) Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

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  • adjective Within cartilage

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Examples

  • Chung UI (2004) Essential role of hypertrophic chondrocytes in endochondral bone development.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010

  • Long bones, such as tibia, grow and elongate through the process of endochondral ossification where skeletal elements are first laid down as cartilage precursors and then this cartilage is replaced by bone

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • Ulici V, Tuckermann J, Underhill TM, Beier F (2007) Expression profiling of Dexamethasone-treated primary chondrocytes identifies targets of glucocorticoid signalling in endochondral bone development.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • (BMPs), Wnts, and Ihh, all of which are important for osteogenesis, as well as RANKL and VEGF, which promote osteoclast activation and vascular invasion Hypertrophic differentiation is not only an essential step in endochondral ossification, but it also seems to be a pathological event in early osteoarthritis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • In a previous publication we showed that pharmacological inhibition of the PI3K signaling pathway results in reduced endochondral bone growth, and in particular, shortening of the hypertrophic zone in a tibia organ culture system.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010

  • Agoston H, Khan S, James CG, Gillespie JR, Serra R, et al. (2007) C-type natriuretic peptide regulates endochondral bone growth through p38 MAP kinase-dependent and - independent pathways.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • Hoenselaar KD, Gillespie JR, Beier F (2008) The PI3K pathway regulates endochondral bone growth through control of hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

  • Campos-Xavier AB, Martinet D, Bateman J, Belluoccio D, Rowley L, et al. (2009) Mutations in the heparan-sulfate proteoglycan glypican 6 (GPC6) impair endochondral ossification and cause recessive omodysplasia.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dan E. Arking et al. 2010

  • In a previous publication we showed that pharmacological inhibition of the PI3K signaling pathway results in reduced endochondral bone growth, and in particular, shortening of the hypertrophic zone in a tibia organ culture system.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010

  • Long bones, such as tibia, grow and elongate through the process of endochondral ossification where skeletal elements are first laid down as cartilage precursors and then this cartilage is replaced by bone

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010

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