Serrat MA, Williams RM, Farnum CE. Temperature alters solute transport in growth plate cartilage measured by in vivo multiphoton microscopy. J Appl Physiol 106: 2016–2025, 2009. First published April 16, 2009; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00295.2009.— Solute delivery to avascular cartilaginous plates is critical to bone elongation, and impaired transport of nutrients and growth factors in cartilage...

Landman, Otto E. (Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.), Howard T. Bausum, and Thomas S. Matney. Temperature-gradient plates for growth of microorganisms. J. Bacteriol. 83:463-469. 1962.-Different temperature-gradient plates have been devised for the study of microbial growth on solid media through continuous temperature ranges or in liquid media at finely graded temperatures. All plates are made of he...

Solute delivery to avascular cartilaginous plates is critical to bone elongation, and impaired transport of nutrients and growth factors in cartilage matrix could underlie many skeletal abnormalities. Advances in imaging technology have revolutionized our ability to visualize growth plates in vivo, but quantitative methods are still needed. We developed analytical standards for measuring solute...

The use of biopolymers as a three dimensional (3D) support structure for cell growth is a leading tissue engineering approach in regenerative medicine. Achieving consistent cell seeding and uniform cell distribution throughout 3D scaffold culture in vitro is an ongoing challenge. Traditionally, 3D scaffolds are cultured within tissue culture plates to enable reproducible cell seeding and ease o...

An endocrine basis for slipping of the upper femoral epiphysis is suggested by the fact that the lesion is nearly always accompanied by abnormalities of growth which in themselves appear to he caused by an endocrine disorder. This is especially true of those patients from whom an inadequate history of injury can be obtained. The usual disturbance of growth is the adiposo-genital syndrome, a con...

The effects of vitamin D metabolites on alkaline phosphatase [ALPase; orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] activity, a marker of terminal differentiation, in chondrocyte cultures and growth plates in vivo were examined. In cultures of pelleted rabbit growth-plate chondrocytes, 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3) increased the contents o...

PURPOSE This study was designed to determine whether the amount of endochondral growth response to mechanical compression and the underlying growth mechanism differed with night-time or day-time loading, relative to full-time loading. METHODS Mechanical compression (nominally 0.1 MPa stress) was applied across tibial and tail vertebral growth plates of growing Sprague-Dawley rats. Four groups...

The anatomy and development of the growing acetabulum are not clearly understood. We dissected and studied histologically two acetabula from the pelvis of a three-month-old infant. Relative rates of growth at the different growth plates were assessed by comparing the height of the proliferative layer with that of the hypertrophic layer. The three bones which form the acetabulum are surrounded b...

introduction: candida albicans (ca) is by far the most common yeast of oral infections, including endodontic infections. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the antifungal effect of white-colored mineral trioxide aggregate (wmta) and portland cement (pc) using a tube-dilution test. materials and methods: wmta and pc were tested freshly mixed and after 24 h. the experiment was perf...

BACKGROUND The study has been performed to investigate the influence of pulsed magnetic field on the bone growth plates to get new grounds of magneto therapy in AIS treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Were used methods of "strong" and "weak" pulsed magnetic fields influence. RESULTS Application of pulsed magnetic field causes an authentic inhibition of chondrocytes' active proliferation proces...