The base structure of your skeletal system consists of your 206 bones that form your skeleton. Each bone has three layers: The parts of your skeletal system that connect and support your bones ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body ... developmentally closest to the cells of the central nervous system. The precursor cells of the spine and ribs are somitic mesoderm ...

The researchers undertook a specific in vivo analysis of the mitochondrial malfunction in the skeletal system using a mouse ... so that aging processes in the skeleton are accelerated.