EPIPHYSEAL DISK – 5
The figure contains the zone of serial cartilage and its transition to the zone of hypertrophic cartilage.
Lower image
1 – End of the Zone of serial cartilage
The image shows the end of the stacks of chondrocytes (highlighted in red). The cartilage extracellular matrix is highlighted in light blue.
2- At the lower portion of each stack the chondrocytes increase in size (highlighted in green) and form the Zone of hypertrophic cartilage
As a consequence of the size increase of the chondrocytes the extracellular matrix in this Zone becomes much thinner.
