Cartilage Histology

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Across
  1. 1. common glass-like cartilage
  2. 4. looooooooooong GAG
  3. 5. waste product of anaerobically respiring chondrocytes
  4. 12. the inner layer of perichondrium easily seen when cartilage is growing
  5. 14. growth of cartilage from perichondrium
  6. 16. chemistry term for thirsty GAGS
  7. 17. fiber in the epiglottis that prevents choking as I recoil
  8. 19. this is the solution to resisting loadbearing forces
  9. 20. you won't find these bloody things in cartilage - no cap!
  10. 21. name for a group of two or four chondrocytes in the cartilage matrix
  11. 22. growth of cartilage from within its ECM
  12. 23. collagen that organizes cartilage ECM fibrils into a lattice
Down
  1. 2. a hole where a chondrocyte lives
  2. 3. major cartilage specific collagen
  3. 6. 1-across cartilage (but without the perichondrium!)
  4. 7. cells that secrete cartilage ECM
  5. 8. stem cell type from which cartilage cells arise
  6. 9. glycoprotein that is to chondrocytes as laminin is to epithelial cells
  7. 10. it's how 3-down appears in the light microscope
  8. 11. name for cartilage proteoglycans
  9. 13. the outer layer of perichondrium composed of type I collagen
  10. 15. force resisted by 6-down cartilage
  11. 18. special fibrocartilage disc containing articulation for DDS