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 Salter-Harris fracture is a fracture in the growth plate of a child’s bone. A growth plate is a layer of growing tissue close to the ends of a child’s bone. Growth plates are fragile portions of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) is a condition where the head of the thigh bone slips off the neck of the bone at the growth plate. The growth plate is the area of cartilage at the end of the ...

Loss of Dnmt1 disrupted normal DNA methylation in chondrocytes, leading to increased expression of genes involved in cellular energy metabolism. As a result, metabolic abnormalities occurred, ...

Think protein is only for building muscle? Science reveals that nearly half of your bone volume is made of protein, making it the secret weapon for preventing fractures and osteoporosis.

How tall will any given adolescent human grow? Sometimes doctors will image a teen’s growth plates to find out. This micrograph shows a growth plate and other tissues in a human bone. How tall will ...