BIOL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sesamoid Bone, Medullary Cavity, Long Bone

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206 bones; they all have compact and spongy bone ! Long bones, short bones, at bones, irregular bones ! The outer and the inner layer ! Dense regular ct (called the brous layer) ! Provides attachment points for tendons and ligaments! Osteogenic cells that differentiate into blood cells (called the osteogenic layer)! Contains osteogenic cells that differentiate into bone cells ! Remnant of epiphyseal plate (which is the growth plate) and is only in long bones ! Shaft made up of compact bone and contains medullary cavity, found only in long ! Ends of long bones with outer compact bone and inside spongy (top is proximal and ! bottom is distal) ! Osteogenic cells differentiate with osteoblasts which then turn into osteocytes which ! then communicate and control osteoclasts! Hydroxyapatite and other minerals (such as mg, manganese, fluoride) ! Calcium phosphate found in collagen bers in bone matrix ! Hardness of bones ability to resist compression !

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