The skeletal system: It's ALIVE!

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The skeletal system: It's ALIVE!

Man in glasses: This, my friends, is a walrus baculum.

It's basically a penis bone found in most placental mammals; interestingly, not in humans.

This is a polar bear skull, which as you can see, is more streamlined for swimming in the water than a grizzly bear skull.

Over here we have my giant friend the rhino head, which is good for being giant for fighting off predators and fighting for, I don't know.

Why do rhinos have big heads?

This is the skull of a pronghorn antelope.

It has these horns that come off that are covered in these keratin sheaths that fall off once a year.

These are all bones, parts of skeletons, and they're all pretty freaking awesome.

I am surrounded by them here at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana.

All of these bones have adapted to help animals survive; the horns on the pronghorn for mating displays and self defense, the streamlined skull of a polar bear for swimming in the water, and the walrus baculum for longevity, I guess.

We're used to thinking of our skeletons as being the dead parts of us because that's what's left over after all of our stuff that looks like us has rotted away.

The fact is, our bones make up a vital organ system, and I don't just mean vital in that without them you would be a sort of disgusting dead pile of lumpy mush, but also in the traditional meaning of vital meaning it's alive.

It protects your vital organs, it makes locomotion possible, it manufacturers your blood, and on top of it all, it takes care of its own repair and maintenance.

The skeleton is alive, people, and walrus penises are just the beginning.

(boppy music) You know what bones are, but maybe you didn't know that you don't have to be a vertebrate or even a [coronate] to have a skeleton.

Jellies and worms, for instance, have hydrostatic skeletons made up of fluid-filled body cavities.

By squeezing muscles around the cavities they change their shapes.

That can be used to produce movement.

Insects have exoskeletons, of course, made of the nitrogenous carbohydrate, chitin.

Most mollusks have exoskeletons, too, in the form of calcium carbonate shell.

So when it comes to skeletons, the winningest formula has been the endoskeleton, even though we'd probably feel a lot safer if we were covered with armored plates like some race of iron men.

Having skeletons inside of our bodies has allowed us to grow larger and have much more freedom of movement. It's good stuff.

One of the many reasons you don't see ants the size of horses walking around is, one, it wouldn't be able to breathe, but also a body with such a huge volume would require an exoskeleton that was exponentially thicker, and therefore heavier and clumsier, to support it.

So, endoskeletons allow animals to grow larger by supporting more mass, plus you don't have to worry about the embarrassment that comes with unsightly molting.

As adults, humans have 206 bones, all kinds of shapes and sizes, including three tiny ones in each ear, one weird shaped one like a horseshoe in your throat, 27 in your hands, and 26 in each foot.

You also have at least 32 teeth unless you played too much hockey.

Even though they're included in the skeletal system, they don't count as bones because they're made up of different material, namely dentin and enamel, the hardest material in your body.

You probably think of the skull as one big bone, but it actually consists of many separate bones, including 8 plates that cover your brain and 14 others in your face. Face bones.

So simple, right? Well, you might want to sit down.

You probably already are. I'm going to, because it's time for Biolo-graphy.

(boppy music) You'd think that we'd have nailed down the basics of the human skeleton a long time ago because our teeth and our bones are the biggest and hardest parts of our bodies, and after we leave this mortal coil they're what stick around the longest.

It's not like they're super hard to find and study.

Surely all of those ancient physicians who basically invented medical science would have inventoried all of our bones pretty soon after they figured out that we had bones, right?

If the answer was yes, do you think I'd be sitting here?

Most of what we know about the human skeletal system is thanks to Andries Van Wesel, who was born in what's now Belgium in 1514.

In those days, if you were like a kung fu master in science you pretty much got your own Latin name, so today he's known as Andreas Vesalius.

Vesalius came from a long line of physicians to kings and emperors.

While studying in Paris, he began dorking around in cemeteries and became interested in what's now known as osteology, the study of bones.

Perhaps Vesalius' greatest contribution was showing the world that everything we thought we knew about osteology was wrong.

Back in those days, if you wanted to become a doctor, you didn't study bodies or see patients; you read stuff written by ancient Romans whose work was considered indisputable, because, you know, those guys had long beards and they wore robes!

But in his research, Vesalius discovered that Roman texts about the skeleton, especially the teachings of the philosopher Dr. Galen were way, way off.

Roman law prohibited the dissection of human bodies, so none of those guys ever actually studied human innards.

Instead they dissected apes and pigs and donkeys and used that to make assumptions about the human body.

So for 15 centuries, young doctors were taught those assumptions.

Vesalius revolutionized osteology and all of medicine by introducing a new practice, every pre-med student's favorite, human dissection.

He instructed students by dismembering corpses in front of them and cataloging their parts, giving students the first opportunity ever to directly observe the inside of a human body.

These new methods drew a lot of attention, particularly from a local judge who began donating bodies of the criminals that he executed to Vesalius.

Suddenly the dude was up to his codpiece in pig thieves and murderers, and by the time he was 28, he had done enough research that he published De humani corporis fabrica, On the Fabric of the Human Body, a seven volume text on human anatomy including the first comprehensive description ever made of the human skeleton.

Its beautifully detailed illustrations are thought to have been created in the studio of the Renaissance artist, Titian, featuring pictures of flayed corpses positioned in symbolic poses.

Many of the volumes, some of which still exist today, are bound in human skin.

The takeaway here is that even though bones are big and hard, the science behind them is far from obvious.

Even though we tend to think of our bones as rigid and fixed, your skeleton is as dynamic as any other of your organ systems.

It's built from scratch with ingredients in your blood, it's grown according to glands in your head, and probably coolest of all, it's constantly breaking itself down and rebuilding itself over and over again, for as long as you live.

Most new bone tissue starts out as cartilage, which you may know from your nose and your ears.

It's made of specialized cells called chondrocytes.

In newly forming bones these cells start dividing like crazy and secrete collagen and other proteins to form a cartilage model, or framework, for the bones to form on.

Soon blood vessels work their way into the cartilage and bring plump little cells called osteoblasts.

Oste, which you'll be hearing a lot of today, just means bone and "blast" means germ or bud.

The bone building that they do is called, fittingly, ossification.

First, they secrete this gelatinous goo that's a combination of collagen in a polysaccharide that acts kind of like an organic glue.

Then, they start absorbing a bunch of minerals and salts from the blood and all the capillaries around them, and unsurprisingly, they're especially absorbing calcium and phosphate, and they begin depositing those minerals onto the matrix.

With the help of enzymes secreted by the osteoblasts, these chemicals bond to form calcium phosphate, which crystallizes to make your bone matrix.

In the end, about 2/3 of your bone matrix is proteins like collagen, and the other 1/3 is calcium phosphate.

Kind of surprising, right? Most of your bone isn't even mineral and even the part that is is living tissue because it's all honeycombed with blood vessels that allow osteoblasts and other cells to do their jobs.

Unlike an insect's exoskeleton, even the hardest parts of your bones are alive.

Now, even though bone can take all kinds of forms, from big flat plates protecting the brain to the tiny stirrup in your ear, inside they all tend to have the same basic structure.

If you cut one in half, you'd see that the matrix actually forms in two layers.

The outer layer, called the compact or cortical bone is hard and dense and makes up about 80% of the bone's mass.

In the middle, the spongy or trabecular bone, is softer, more porous; it contains the marrow and fatty tissues in larger bones.

The marrow, of course, makes not only new red blood cells, but almost all of your different blood cells, by a process called hematopoeisis.

I'd need like about a week of your time and a Greek dictionary to explain how it does this, but suffice it to say that evolution has wisely chosen the innards of our largest bones to house the blood stem cells that together can produce one trillion blood cells in you every day.

That's 10 to the fricking 12th.

On the outside, the larger bones of your body have a similar structure.

Have a look here at this femur.

That's the biggest bone in your body.

The main shaft is called the diaphysis.

Each rounded end is an epiphysis.

When the bones grow, as a child grows, the new tissue forms the border between the two, a place called the epiphyseal plate.

As they did when they formed the original bone tissue, chondrocytes start to produce new cartilage here and the osteoblasts come in and lay down more collagen and calcium phosphate.

As you grow, the ends of your bones are actually growing away from each other until by the time you're about 25 the last of these plates in your bones hardens.

By the way, this whole process is stimulated by growth hormones secreted from glands all over your body, but the head honcho, right here, is the pituitary gland, about the size of a pea, nestled at the base of your brain.

As adults, this and other glands produce less growth hormone which slows down our bone lengthening.

But, even though lengthening is a limited time only process, the thickness and strength of a bone must continually be maintained by the body, because, of course like all of your cells, bone cells go through a lot of wear and tear and need to be able to adjust to changing conditions.

Over the course of each year of your adult life, about 10% of your skeleton is completely broken down and then rebuilt from scratch in a process called bone remodeling.

Here the main players are the osteoblasts again, and another kind of cell that's kind of their complete opposite, the osteoclasts, or bone breakers.

You'd think maybe that the cells that form bone tissue and the ones that destroy it would be in some kind of constant battle in your body, but during remodeling they work closely together and actually communicate nicely. It's like they're basically frienemies.

Remodeling begins when osteoclasts are sent, by way of hormone signals, through the capillaries to the sites of microscopic fractures in the bone matrix.

Once they're in place, they secret an acidic cocktail of hydrogen ions to dissolve the calcium phosphate into calcium ions, phosphate and water and other material that they carry back to nearby capillaries.

Then they secret enzymes that specialize in digesting collagen.

This whole process is call resorption.

When the old bone tissue has been cleaned up, the osteoclasts send out a hormone shoutout to the osteoblasts who come in and do their ossification thing.

Bone remodeling is really pretty amazing and it's all ultimately regulated by hormones that maintain the levels of calcium in your blood.

The glands that call all the plays during the bone breaking part of the remodeling are the parathyroids in your neck.

When the calcium in your blood plasma falls below the level of homeostasis, the parathyroid triggers osteoclasts to take calcium out of your bones and release it back into the blood.

Likewise, when blood calcium levels are too high, the parathyroid's cousin, the thyroid gland, signals osteoblasts to take calcium out of the blood and lay it down on the bone collagen through more ossification.

Remember last week when we talked about how the kidneys reabsorb salts and minerals?

Well, the thyroid also regulates how much calcium is reabsorbed in that process, as well as the amount of vitamin D, because vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium through the small intestine, and that is why vitamin D is all good for your bones and stuff.

The relation of active osteoblast to active osteoclast can change dramatically under different conditions.

The more you stress your bones the more osteoclasts work to break down the bone matrix so that it can be reformed.

Bone stress can include stuff like fractures, of course, but it can also be less traumatic and more sustained.

Exercise causes stress on the skeleton that helps stimulate bone remodeling, so when you're working out you're not only building muscle, you're also building bone.

As you can tell, it's kind of hard to talk about bones without also talking about muscles.

That's what we're going to do on the next episode of Crash Course Biology.

Thank you so much to the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at The University of Montana. Sorry, I just hit you.

Check out their tumblr at umzoologoy.tumblr.com. It's awesome.

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The skeletal system: It's ALIVE!발음듣기

Man in glasses: This, my friends, is a walrus baculum.발음듣기

It's basically a penis bone found in most placental mammals; interestingly, not in humans.발음듣기

This is a polar bear skull, which as you can see, is more streamlined for swimming in the water than a grizzly bear skull.발음듣기

Over here we have my giant friend the rhino head, which is good for being giant for fighting off predators and fighting for, I don't know.발음듣기

Why do rhinos have big heads?발음듣기

This is the skull of a pronghorn antelope.발음듣기

It has these horns that come off that are covered in these keratin sheaths that fall off once a year.발음듣기

These are all bones, parts of skeletons, and they're all pretty freaking awesome.발음듣기

I am surrounded by them here at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana.발음듣기

All of these bones have adapted to help animals survive; the horns on the pronghorn for mating displays and self defense, the streamlined skull of a polar bear for swimming in the water, and the walrus baculum for longevity, I guess.발음듣기

We're used to thinking of our skeletons as being the dead parts of us because that's what's left over after all of our stuff that looks like us has rotted away.발음듣기

The fact is, our bones make up a vital organ system, and I don't just mean vital in that without them you would be a sort of disgusting dead pile of lumpy mush, but also in the traditional meaning of vital meaning it's alive.발음듣기

It protects your vital organs, it makes locomotion possible, it manufacturers your blood, and on top of it all, it takes care of its own repair and maintenance.발음듣기

The skeleton is alive, people, and walrus penises are just the beginning.발음듣기

(boppy music) You know what bones are, but maybe you didn't know that you don't have to be a vertebrate or even a [coronate] to have a skeleton.발음듣기

Jellies and worms, for instance, have hydrostatic skeletons made up of fluid-filled body cavities.발음듣기

By squeezing muscles around the cavities they change their shapes.발음듣기

That can be used to produce movement.발음듣기

Insects have exoskeletons, of course, made of the nitrogenous carbohydrate, chitin.발음듣기

Most mollusks have exoskeletons, too, in the form of calcium carbonate shell.발음듣기

So when it comes to skeletons, the winningest formula has been the endoskeleton, even though we'd probably feel a lot safer if we were covered with armored plates like some race of iron men.발음듣기

Having skeletons inside of our bodies has allowed us to grow larger and have much more freedom of movement. It's good stuff.발음듣기

One of the many reasons you don't see ants the size of horses walking around is, one, it wouldn't be able to breathe, but also a body with such a huge volume would require an exoskeleton that was exponentially thicker, and therefore heavier and clumsier, to support it.발음듣기

So, endoskeletons allow animals to grow larger by supporting more mass, plus you don't have to worry about the embarrassment that comes with unsightly molting.발음듣기

As adults, humans have 206 bones, all kinds of shapes and sizes, including three tiny ones in each ear, one weird shaped one like a horseshoe in your throat, 27 in your hands, and 26 in each foot.발음듣기

You also have at least 32 teeth unless you played too much hockey.발음듣기

Even though they're included in the skeletal system, they don't count as bones because they're made up of different material, namely dentin and enamel, the hardest material in your body.발음듣기

You probably think of the skull as one big bone, but it actually consists of many separate bones, including 8 plates that cover your brain and 14 others in your face. Face bones.발음듣기

So simple, right? Well, you might want to sit down.발음듣기

You probably already are. I'm going to, because it's time for Biolo-graphy.발음듣기

(boppy music) You'd think that we'd have nailed down the basics of the human skeleton a long time ago because our teeth and our bones are the biggest and hardest parts of our bodies, and after we leave this mortal coil they're what stick around the longest.발음듣기

It's not like they're super hard to find and study.발음듣기

Surely all of those ancient physicians who basically invented medical science would have inventoried all of our bones pretty soon after they figured out that we had bones, right?발음듣기

If the answer was yes, do you think I'd be sitting here?발음듣기

Most of what we know about the human skeletal system is thanks to Andries Van Wesel, who was born in what's now Belgium in 1514.발음듣기

In those days, if you were like a kung fu master in science you pretty much got your own Latin name, so today he's known as Andreas Vesalius.발음듣기

Vesalius came from a long line of physicians to kings and emperors.발음듣기

While studying in Paris, he began dorking around in cemeteries and became interested in what's now known as osteology, the study of bones.발음듣기

Perhaps Vesalius' greatest contribution was showing the world that everything we thought we knew about osteology was wrong.발음듣기

Back in those days, if you wanted to become a doctor, you didn't study bodies or see patients; you read stuff written by ancient Romans whose work was considered indisputable, because, you know, those guys had long beards and they wore robes!발음듣기

But in his research, Vesalius discovered that Roman texts about the skeleton, especially the teachings of the philosopher Dr. Galen were way, way off.발음듣기

Roman law prohibited the dissection of human bodies, so none of those guys ever actually studied human innards.발음듣기

Instead they dissected apes and pigs and donkeys and used that to make assumptions about the human body.발음듣기

So for 15 centuries, young doctors were taught those assumptions.발음듣기

Vesalius revolutionized osteology and all of medicine by introducing a new practice, every pre-med student's favorite, human dissection.발음듣기

He instructed students by dismembering corpses in front of them and cataloging their parts, giving students the first opportunity ever to directly observe the inside of a human body.발음듣기

These new methods drew a lot of attention, particularly from a local judge who began donating bodies of the criminals that he executed to Vesalius.발음듣기

Suddenly the dude was up to his codpiece in pig thieves and murderers, and by the time he was 28, he had done enough research that he published De humani corporis fabrica, On the Fabric of the Human Body, a seven volume text on human anatomy including the first comprehensive description ever made of the human skeleton.발음듣기

Its beautifully detailed illustrations are thought to have been created in the studio of the Renaissance artist, Titian, featuring pictures of flayed corpses positioned in symbolic poses.발음듣기

Many of the volumes, some of which still exist today, are bound in human skin.발음듣기

The takeaway here is that even though bones are big and hard, the science behind them is far from obvious.발음듣기

Even though we tend to think of our bones as rigid and fixed, your skeleton is as dynamic as any other of your organ systems.발음듣기

It's built from scratch with ingredients in your blood, it's grown according to glands in your head, and probably coolest of all, it's constantly breaking itself down and rebuilding itself over and over again, for as long as you live.발음듣기

Most new bone tissue starts out as cartilage, which you may know from your nose and your ears.발음듣기

It's made of specialized cells called chondrocytes.발음듣기

In newly forming bones these cells start dividing like crazy and secrete collagen and other proteins to form a cartilage model, or framework, for the bones to form on.발음듣기

Soon blood vessels work their way into the cartilage and bring plump little cells called osteoblasts.발음듣기

Oste, which you'll be hearing a lot of today, just means bone and "blast" means germ or bud.발음듣기

The bone building that they do is called, fittingly, ossification.발음듣기

First, they secrete this gelatinous goo that's a combination of collagen in a polysaccharide that acts kind of like an organic glue.발음듣기

Then, they start absorbing a bunch of minerals and salts from the blood and all the capillaries around them, and unsurprisingly, they're especially absorbing calcium and phosphate, and they begin depositing those minerals onto the matrix.발음듣기

With the help of enzymes secreted by the osteoblasts, these chemicals bond to form calcium phosphate, which crystallizes to make your bone matrix.발음듣기

In the end, about 2/3 of your bone matrix is proteins like collagen, and the other 1/3 is calcium phosphate.발음듣기

Kind of surprising, right? Most of your bone isn't even mineral and even the part that is is living tissue because it's all honeycombed with blood vessels that allow osteoblasts and other cells to do their jobs.발음듣기

Unlike an insect's exoskeleton, even the hardest parts of your bones are alive.발음듣기

Now, even though bone can take all kinds of forms, from big flat plates protecting the brain to the tiny stirrup in your ear, inside they all tend to have the same basic structure.발음듣기

If you cut one in half, you'd see that the matrix actually forms in two layers.발음듣기

The outer layer, called the compact or cortical bone is hard and dense and makes up about 80% of the bone's mass.발음듣기

In the middle, the spongy or trabecular bone, is softer, more porous; it contains the marrow and fatty tissues in larger bones.발음듣기

The marrow, of course, makes not only new red blood cells, but almost all of your different blood cells, by a process called hematopoeisis.발음듣기

I'd need like about a week of your time and a Greek dictionary to explain how it does this, but suffice it to say that evolution has wisely chosen the innards of our largest bones to house the blood stem cells that together can produce one trillion blood cells in you every day.발음듣기

That's 10 to the fricking 12th.발음듣기

On the outside, the larger bones of your body have a similar structure.발음듣기

Have a look here at this femur.발음듣기

That's the biggest bone in your body.발음듣기

The main shaft is called the diaphysis.발음듣기

Each rounded end is an epiphysis.발음듣기

When the bones grow, as a child grows, the new tissue forms the border between the two, a place called the epiphyseal plate.발음듣기

As they did when they formed the original bone tissue, chondrocytes start to produce new cartilage here and the osteoblasts come in and lay down more collagen and calcium phosphate.발음듣기

As you grow, the ends of your bones are actually growing away from each other until by the time you're about 25 the last of these plates in your bones hardens.발음듣기

By the way, this whole process is stimulated by growth hormones secreted from glands all over your body, but the head honcho, right here, is the pituitary gland, about the size of a pea, nestled at the base of your brain.발음듣기

As adults, this and other glands produce less growth hormone which slows down our bone lengthening.발음듣기

But, even though lengthening is a limited time only process, the thickness and strength of a bone must continually be maintained by the body, because, of course like all of your cells, bone cells go through a lot of wear and tear and need to be able to adjust to changing conditions.발음듣기

Over the course of each year of your adult life, about 10% of your skeleton is completely broken down and then rebuilt from scratch in a process called bone remodeling.발음듣기

Here the main players are the osteoblasts again, and another kind of cell that's kind of their complete opposite, the osteoclasts, or bone breakers.발음듣기

You'd think maybe that the cells that form bone tissue and the ones that destroy it would be in some kind of constant battle in your body, but during remodeling they work closely together and actually communicate nicely. It's like they're basically frienemies.발음듣기

Remodeling begins when osteoclasts are sent, by way of hormone signals, through the capillaries to the sites of microscopic fractures in the bone matrix.발음듣기

Once they're in place, they secret an acidic cocktail of hydrogen ions to dissolve the calcium phosphate into calcium ions, phosphate and water and other material that they carry back to nearby capillaries.발음듣기

Then they secret enzymes that specialize in digesting collagen.발음듣기

This whole process is call resorption.발음듣기

When the old bone tissue has been cleaned up, the osteoclasts send out a hormone shoutout to the osteoblasts who come in and do their ossification thing.발음듣기

Bone remodeling is really pretty amazing and it's all ultimately regulated by hormones that maintain the levels of calcium in your blood.발음듣기

The glands that call all the plays during the bone breaking part of the remodeling are the parathyroids in your neck.발음듣기

When the calcium in your blood plasma falls below the level of homeostasis, the parathyroid triggers osteoclasts to take calcium out of your bones and release it back into the blood.발음듣기

Likewise, when blood calcium levels are too high, the parathyroid's cousin, the thyroid gland, signals osteoblasts to take calcium out of the blood and lay it down on the bone collagen through more ossification.발음듣기

Remember last week when we talked about how the kidneys reabsorb salts and minerals?발음듣기

Well, the thyroid also regulates how much calcium is reabsorbed in that process, as well as the amount of vitamin D, because vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium through the small intestine, and that is why vitamin D is all good for your bones and stuff.발음듣기

The relation of active osteoblast to active osteoclast can change dramatically under different conditions.발음듣기

The more you stress your bones the more osteoclasts work to break down the bone matrix so that it can be reformed.발음듣기

Bone stress can include stuff like fractures, of course, but it can also be less traumatic and more sustained.발음듣기

Exercise causes stress on the skeleton that helps stimulate bone remodeling, so when you're working out you're not only building muscle, you're also building bone.발음듣기

As you can tell, it's kind of hard to talk about bones without also talking about muscles.발음듣기

That's what we're going to do on the next episode of Crash Course Biology.발음듣기

Thank you so much to the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at The University of Montana. Sorry, I just hit you.발음듣기

Check out their tumblr at umzoologoy.tumblr.com. It's awesome.발음듣기

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