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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.

Researchers have identified Type R capillaries’ importance in bone remodelling in mature and ageing bones. This shows that ...

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 ...

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 ...