| Abstract: | The spatial interrelationships of osteon canals were studied in corrosion preparations with the help of rastral electron microscopy. The structure of microvessels, their belonging to a definite link of the microcirculatory bed, the interaction of vessels and their position with respect to the osseous matrix were studied in bone sections impregnated with silver nitrate after V. V. Kuprijanov. Haversian canals in the compact substance of the bone are longitudinally oriented, can duplicate and form a single system of canals. The neighbouring canals of osteons might be bound by means of Volkmann's canals. The investigation of the Haversian canals in serial sections has shown that the diameter of the same canals of osteons can change at different levels, the diameter of the osteons themselves remaining unchanged. This seems to speak of uneven development of osteons in their different parts. In the Haversian canal there are one-two or occasionally three vessels having all three links of the morphocirculatory bed. The course and ramification of the vessel are identical to the shape of the osteon canal which includes them. The vessels are closely connected with the bony matrix by means of connective tissue bundles directed from the canal wall to the vessel wall. These bundles appear to serve as a peculiar anchor or amortizing apparatus and its elasticity might be a factor of a change of the shape and direction of the canal vessels in the bone development process. |
