Earlier, Ralf Adams and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine had discovered so-called Type H and Type L capillaries in long bones. Type H capillaries are exclusively found ...

PRESENTER:'Long bones, such as your thigh bone, or femur, grow in length at either end, in regions called growth plates. Growth happens when cartilage cells increase in number in these growth plates.

The growth plate is divided into several distinct regions, each populated with cartilage cells (chondrocytes) displaying characteristic behaviors. Nearest the heads of the bone is a germinal zone ...

Growth plate stress fractures most commonly occur in teenage climbers at the time of the pubertal growth spurt, often around the timing of breast growth for girls and pubic hair in boys. The fingers ...

Type H capillaries are exclusively found in the growth plate of the bone ... in adulthood and are located in trabecular bone, the spongy bone in long bones that makes up most of the bone matrix." ...

As seen here, the growth plate (epiphysis) of her shin bone (tibia) has not fused to the long bone shaft. The same crack-like space appears in the upper arm bone (humerus), seen just above the ...

As children grow and develop, long bones such as the femur progressively elongate at each end. These growing ends – areas of smooth, elastic cartilage known as 'growth plates' – eventually ...