Bone Abstracts

Formation and growth of long bones occur through the process of endochondral ossification, which depends on proliferation and hypertrophy of chondrocytes in growth cartilage. In a subtractive hybridization study of equine cartilage, we recently identified a number of genes, the roles of which in growth cartilage have not been characterized. A subset of these genes was found to be differentially expressed between the zones of equine growth cartilage. The genes encoding ATPase H...