Endothelial cells play an important role in endochondral bone formation. In the chondro-osseous junction, endothelial cells appear to invade into cartilage by the cellular mechanism of angiogenesis evidenced by cell duplication, disappearance of basement membranes and activated migration. The endothelial cells penetrate the unmineralized transverse partition of the cartilage columns.
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