A closer look at some trends in youth sport participation. This is an excerpt from Social Issues in Sport, Second Edition, by Ronald B. Woods, PhD. With participation in youth sport at an all-time high, it would appear that things are rosy in the sporting world of kids. In 2000, the number of American youth who played on at least one organized sport team was found to be 54% of kids between ages 6 and 17 (American Sports Data, Inc. 2005).
The integrity of tissues is also dependent on the adhesion, by CAMs, of cells to cells and cells to the Extracellular Matrix. Extracellular matrix (ECM) All cells in solid tissue are surrounded by extracellular matrix. Both plants and animals have ECM. The cell wall of plant cells is a type of extracellular matrix.n animals, the ECM can surround cells as fibrils that contact the cells on all sides, or as a sheet called the basement membrane that cells âsit onâ. Cells in animals are also linked directly to each other by cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) at the cell surface.
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