The osmotic sensitivity of rat growth pl
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Peter G. Bush; Constantinos A. Parisinos; Andrew C. Hall
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Bone elongation is predominantly driven by the volume expansion of growth plate chondrocytes. This mechanism was initially believed to be “hypertrophy”, describing a proportional increase of cell water and organelles. However, morphometrical analysis subsequently assumed the increase to