Hyaline cartilage
Isogenous groups and interstitial growth results when chondrocytes divide and produce extracellular matrix. Territorial matrix lies immediately around each isogenous group and is high in glycosaminoglycans. Therefore, this matrix stains more intensely than matrix farther from an isogenous group, the interterritorial matrix. Collagen fibrils are not visible in hyaline cartilage matrix. 1000x
Chondrocytes
Isogenous groups and interstitial growth results when chondrocytes divide and produce extracellular matrix. Territorial matrix lies immediately around each isogenous group and is high in glycosaminoglycans. Therefore, this matrix stains more intensely than matrix farther from an isogenous group, the interterritorial matrix. Collagen fibrils are not visible in hyaline cartilage matrix. 1000x
Isogenous groups
Isogenous groups and interstitial growth results when chondrocytes divide and produce extracellular matrix. Territorial matrix lies immediately around each isogenous group and is high in glycosaminoglycans. Therefore, this matrix stains more intensely than matrix farther from an isogenous group, the interterritorial matrix. Collagen fibrils are not visible in hyaline cartilage matrix. 1000x
Territorial matrix
Isogenous groups and interstitial growth results when chondrocytes divide and produce extracellular matrix. Territorial matrix lies immediately around each isogenous group and is high in glycosaminoglycans. Therefore, this matrix stains more intensely than matrix farther from an isogenous group, the interterritorial matrix. Collagen fibrils are not visible in hyaline cartilage matrix. 1000x
Interterritorial matrix
Isogenous groups and interstitial growth results when chondrocytes divide and produce extracellular matrix. Territorial matrix lies immediately around each isogenous group and is high in glycosaminoglycans. Therefore, this matrix stains more intensely than matrix farther from an isogenous group, the interterritorial matrix. Collagen fibrils are not visible in hyaline cartilage matrix. 1000x