Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Martini Chapter 6
- 5 Primary functions
- Support - provides structural support for the body and provides the framework for attachments of tissues and organs
- Storage of Lipids and minerals - stored in the yellow bone marrow
- Blood Cell Production - produced in the red bone marrow
- Protection - protects soft organs from damage
- Leverage - act as levers that change the magnitude and direction of the forces generated by skeletal muscles
- Bone Shapes and Structures
- Bone Shapes
- Sutural bones - small, flat, irregularly shaped bones between the flat bones of the skull
- Irregular bones - complex shapes with short, flat, notched or ridged surfaces
- Short bones - small and boxy
- Flat bones - thin, parallel surfaces, provide protection for underlying soft tissues
- Long bones - long and slender
- Sesamoid bones - small, flat and shaped like a sesame seed
- Bone Markings
- bone markings are surface features
- these markings can be used to identify the size, age, sex and general appearance
- Bone Structure
- Diaphysis - extended tubular shaft
- Epiphysis - expanded area at the end of a bone
- Metaphysis - the join between the diaphysis and epiphysis
- the wall of the diaphysis is a layer of compact bone, dense bone
- Compact bone forms a protective layer that surrounds the medullary cavity, marrow cavity
- The epiphyses contain spongy bone
- Spongy bone is an open network of struts and plates that form a lattice structure with a layer of compact bone, cortex.
- A flat bone is a sandwich of compact bone covering a core of spongy bone
- In the skull the layer of spongy bone is called the diploe
- Bone is Composed of Several Cell Types
- Bone Matrix
- Calcium phosphate makes up 2/3 of the weight of a bone
- Calcium phospate interacts with calcium hydroxide to form crystals hydroxyapatite, as they form they incorporate other calcium salts and ions.
- 1/3 of the weight of a bone is collagen fibres
- Cells only make up 2% of a bones mass
- Calcium phosphate crystals are hard and brittle so shatter and break when bent, twisted or recieve a sudden impact
- Collagen fibres are strong and when pulled they are strong as steel, they are also flexible but can't cope with compression
- The composition of the matrix in compact is the same as in spongy bone
- Collagen form the backbone for the calcium phosphate crystals to form on
- The crystals form and lock the bone into shape
- Bone Cells
- Osteocytes
- mature bone cells
- each osteocyte occupies a lacuna
- the layers between them are called lamellae
- narrow passageways called canaliculi go through the lamellae and connect the lacunae with sources of nutrients
- osteocytes are linked by gap junctions which allow the exchange of ions and small molecules
- the interstitial fluid provides an additional route for diffusion
- 2 functions
- maintain the protein and mineral content of the surrounding matrix
- participate in the repair of damaged bone
- Osteoblasts
- Osteoblasts produce new bone matrix during ossification or osteogenisis
- they make and release the proteins ando ther organic components of the matrix
- before calcium salts are deposited the organic matrix is called osteoid
- osteoblasts help elevate concentrations of calcium phosphate above its solubility limit which triggers the deposition of calcium salts into the matrix which converts the osteoid to bone
- osteocytes are formed when a osteoblast is completely surrounded by bone matrix