Chondrocyte Heterogeneity; It Is the Time to Update the Understanding of Cartilage Histology

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Department of Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Abstract

 Chondrocytes were described as one cell populations in most cartilage literature.Two dif-ferent chondrocyte populations; dark and light, were described in the articular cartilage and a third population, adipochondrocytes, wasdescribed in the elastic cartilage. The current literature of cartilage histology should be updatedandhighlight that three different popula-tions of chondrocytes are existed in cartilage

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