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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matrix Biol. 2018 May 24;71-72:51–69. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2018.05.005

Figure 1. Anatomical locations and microscopic structure of cartilage.

Figure 1

(a) Locations of hyaline cartilage (blue), fibrocartilage (yellow) and elastic cartilage (red) in the human body; (b) Immature bovine articular cartilage; (c) Human adult articular cartilage (83 year old male donor distal femur) showing chondrocyte clustering near the tidemark, typical of osteoarthritis; (d) Murine fibrous cartilage (FC) at the interface of the supraspinatus tendon (T) and the humeral head of the humerus bone (B); (e) Elastic cartilage of neonatal bovine ear; elastin fibers appear as unstained lines between the safranin-O staining for GAGs