Journal of Bone Research

Journal of Bone Research
Open Access

ISSN: 2572-4916

+44 1478 350008

Cartilage Tissue

Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints and is a structural component of the rib cage the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs and many other body components. It is not as hard and rigid as bone but it is much stiffer and much less flexible than muscle. The matrix of cartilage is made up of glycosaminoglycans, proteoglycans, collagen fibers and sometimes elastin.

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