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 ...

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 ...

Growth plates (GP), situated at the ends of long bones in children, supply chondrocytes necessary for bone growth. Damage to the growth plate due to fractures often results in arrested bone growth, ...

The IL-6 family of proteins has a bad reputation: it can promote inflammation, arthritis, autoimmune disease and even cancer. However, a new USC-led study published in Communications Biology reveals ...

In a study of mouse and human genes, scientists pinpointed 145 genes that regulate the cartilage cells in kid's growth plates and could determine how tall they grow. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

Two previously unknown stem cell types appear to play a central role in children's height growth, according to a study from ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now demonstrate previously unexplained processes behind growth therapy. It involves hormonal mechanisms at the cellular level, with focus on a sensitive ...

This “blossom” is made of overlapping images of a growth plate from the bone of a two-week-old mouse. This “blossom” is made of overlapping images of a growth plate from the bone of a two-week-old ...