A parent bracing for the prognosis of their child's broken bone might hear "growth plate fracture" and immediately think unfixable damage has been done. Certainly, growth plate fractures should be ...
If your child's been injured you may have learned about growth plates, but if not, you may not know what they are or why they are important.
Growth-plate injuries of the shoulder and elbow are common injuries in youth and adolescent baseball players. The growth-plate (epiphyseal plate or physis) is an area of cartilage at the end of a bone ...
Your child’s growth plate is a very important and delicate part of your child’s developing musculoskeletal system. Also called the epiphyseal plate or physis, the growth plate is an area of growing ...
Bone growth occurs through the proliferation of specialized cells of the cartilage tissue, known as chondrocytes, on either end of a bone. This process requires the synthesis of extracellular matrix ...
In a model of growth retardation secondary to chronic kidney disease (CKD) induced by adenine, this study explores the effects of growth hormone (GH) therapy on growth plate and mineral metabolism.
Background The cartilage of the epiphyseal plate might be 2–5 times weaker than surrounding fibrous tissue; therefore epiphyseal (growth) plates are very sensitive to their surrounding mechanical ...
Dhruv B. Pateder, Roman A. Eliseev, Regis J. O'Keefe, Edward M. Schwarz, Paul Okunieff, Louis S. Constine, J. Edward Puzas, Randy N. Rosier Radiation Research, Vol ...
Exposure to blue light, like that from smartphones or tablets, may accelerate bone growth and bone age, leading to early puberty in rats. This research, presented at the 62nd Annual European Society ...
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