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Lyaruu DM, van Croonenburg EJ, van Duin MA, Bervoets TJ, Wöltgens JH, de Blieck-Hogervorst JM. Development of transplanted pulp tissue containing epithelial sheath into a tooth-like structure. J Oral Pathol Med 1999; 28:293-6. [PMID: 10432194 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1999.tb02043.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The aim of these studies was to find out whether intact neonatal pulp tissue containing residual epithelial cells can induce the development of a tooth-like structure in situ. First maxillary neonatal hamster molar pulps containing adhering undifferentiated epithelial cells were transplanted submucosally in the oral cavity of recipient mothers for periods ranging from 2-8 weeks and the tissues were then processed for light microscopy. Developing tooth-like structures containing mineralised tubular dentine, predentine and a vascularised pulp-like chamber lined with functional odontoblast-like cells were observed in the specimens within 2 weeks of transplantation. Enamel and root formation were not observed. These data indicate that neonatal dental pulp tissues containing epithelial cell remnants have the capacity to develop into tooth-like structures and that this could be the explanation for the development of tooth-like structures sometimes observed in infants after extraction of a natal tooth.
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- D M Lyaruu
- Department of Oral Cell Biology, ACTA, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Zhang Y, Zhao X, Hu Y, St Amand T, Zhang M, Ramamurthy R, Qiu M, Chen Y. Msx1 is required for the induction of Patched by Sonic hedgehog in the mammalian tooth germ. Dev Dyn 1999; 215:45-53. [PMID: 10340755 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199905)215:1<45::aid-dvdy5>3.0.co;2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have used the mouse developing tooth germ as a model system to explore the transmission of Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signal in the induction of Patched (Ptc). In the early developing molar tooth germ, Shh is expressed in the dental epithelium, and the transcripts of Shh downstream target genes Ptc and Gli1 are expressed in dental epithelium as well as adjacent mesenchymal tissue. The homeobox gene Msx1 is also expressed in the dental mesenchyme of the molar tooth germ at this time. We show here that the expression of Ptc, but not Gli1, was downregulated in the dental mesenchyme of Msx1 mutants. In wild-type E11.0 molar tooth mesenchyme SHH-soaked beads induced the expression of Ptc and Gli1. However, in Msx1 mutant dental mesenchyme SHH-soaked beads were able to induce Gli1 but failed to induce Ptc expression, indicating a requirement for Msx1 in the induction of Ptc by SHH. Moreover, we show that another signaling molecule, BMP4, was able to induce Ptc expression in wild-type dental mesenchyme, but induced a distinct expression pattern of Ptc in the Msx1 mutant molar mesenchyme. We conclude that in the context of the tooth germ Msx1 is a component of the Shh signaling pathway that leads to Ptc induction. Our results also suggest that the precise pattern of Ptc expression in the prospective tooth-forming region is controlled and coordinated by at least two inductive signaling pathways.
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- Y Zhang
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
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- R L MacNeil
- School of Dental Medicine, Universitiy of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA
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Carlile MJ, Harrison VT, Lumsden AG, Palmer RM. Development and cell fate in interspecific (Mus musculus/Mus caroli) orthotopic transplants of mouse molar tooth germs detected by in situ hybridization. Arch Oral Biol 1998; 43:395-406. [PMID: 9681115 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9969(97)00118-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Interpretation of results from previous tooth germ transplantation studies is limited by the inability to distinguish between donor and host cells unequivocally. Furthermore, ectopic transplantation sites have generally been used and the relevance of this to tooth development in situ is uncertain. The aim here was to determine cell fate in orthotopic tooth germ transplants using an interspecific mouse marker system. Mandibular first molar tooth germs were dissected from Mus musculus (CD1) and Mus caroli mice (age range 15-19 day embryo) and transplanted interspecifically into the alveolar crypt of extirpated first mandibular molars in neonatal M. musculus (CD1) and M. caroli hosts. Grafts were recovered at intervals up to 4 weeks postoperatively. Paraffin wax-embedded sections were examined using routine histological techniques and in situ hybridization with a biotinylated DNA probe (pmSat5) specific for M. musculus, to distinguish between donor and host cells. Development of M. musculus tooth germs in M. caroli mandibles and vice versa was similar and transplants progressed to incipient root formation. Vascularization of transplants was chimaeric, being donor-derived in the pulp and host-derived more peripherally. The investing soft tissues comprised a mixture of donor and host cells, predominantly donor. Donor cells were also found in the soft tissue of intertrabecular spaces in the surrounding bone, but alveolar osteocytes were almost entirely host-derived. Long-term survival of grafts was limited and few donor cells were present after 2 weeks. This study provides an unequivocal demonstration of the origin of all cells present in transplanted tooth germs.
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- M J Carlile
- Department of Dental Surgery & Periodontology, Dental School, University of Dundee, U.K
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Ababneh KT, Hall RC, Embery G. Immunolocalization of glycosaminoglycans in ageing, healthy and periodontally diseased human cementum. Arch Oral Biol 1998; 43:235-46. [PMID: 9631176 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9969(98)00001-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The distribution of glycosaminoglycans in the extracellular matrix of human cementum was investigated in periodontally involved and periodontal disease-free teeth separated into eight different age groups (from 12 to 90 years), to investigate possible changes in the distribution of glycosaminoglycan species associated with ageing and periodontal disease. A standard indirect immunoperoxidase technique was used, with a panel of monoclonal antibodies, 2B6, 3B3, 5D4, and 7D4, that recognize epitopes in chondroitin-4-sulphate/dermatan sulphate (C-4S/DS), chondroitin-6-sulphate (C-6S), keratan sulphate (KS) and a novel sulphated chondroitin sulphate (CS) epitope, respectively. Intense positive staining for C4-S/DS was observed at the margins and lumina of almost all the lacunae and canaliculi in cellular cementum in all sections. Immunoreactivity to C6-S, KS and novel CS epitopes was limited to a proportion of lacunae and canaliculi in all sections, although C6-S and the novel CS epitopes were more widely distributed than KS. In acellular cementum, there was no demonstrable staining for any of the glycosaminoglycans except where periodontal ligament (Sharpey's) fibres insert; periodontal ligament fibres inserting in cellular cementum also demonstrated positive immunoreactivity. In addition, the cementoblasts on the outer root surface, as well as the pericellular areas around a proportion of these cells, demonstrated positive immunoreactivity. These results indicate that glycosaminoglycan species present in human cementum include C4-S, DS, C6-S, and novel sulphated CS epitopes. KS is also present in cementum but is limited to a more restricted proportion of lacunae and canaliculi. Regional differences in the distribution of glycosaminoglycans exist between the two cementum types, but no qualitative differences in that distribution were observed between the various age groups or between periodontally involved and periodontal disease-free teeth. The immunoreactivity observed in a proportion of lacunae after staining for C6-S, KS, and novel sulphated CS epitopes could suggest the existence of different cementocyte subpopulations.
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- K T Ababneh
- Department of Basic Dental Science, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, U.K
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- A R Ten Cate
- Graduate Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- D D Bosshardt
- Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Maas R, Bei M. The genetic control of early tooth development. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL BIOLOGISTS 1997; 8:4-39. [PMID: 9063623 DOI: 10.1177/10454411970080010101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Most vertebrate organs begin their initial formation by a common, developmentally conserved pattern of inductive tissue interactions between two tissues. The developing tooth germ is a prototype for such inductive tissue interactions and provides a powerful experimental system for elucidation of the genetic pathways involved in organogenesis. Members of the Msx homeobox gene family are expressed at sites of epithelial-mesenchymal interaction during embryogenesis, including the tooth. The important role that Msx genes play in tooth development is exemplified by mice lacking Msx gene function. Msxl-deficient mice exhibit an arrest in tooth development at the bud stage, while Msx2-deficient mice exhibit late defects in tooth development. The co-expression of Msx, Bmp, Lefl, and Activin beta A genes and the coincidence of tooth phenotypes in the various knockout mice suggest that these genes reside within a common genetic pathway. Results summarized here indicate that Msxl is required for the transmission of Bmp4 expression from dental epithelium to mesenchyme and also for Lefl expression. In addition, we consider the role of other signaling molecules in the epithelial-mesenchymal interactions leading to tooth formation, the role that transcription factors such as Msx play in the propagation of inductive signals, and the role of extracellular matrix. Last, as a unifying mechanism to explain the disparate tooth phenotypes in Msxl- and Msx2-deficient mice, we propose that later steps in tooth morphogenesis molecularly resemble those in early tooth development.
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- R Maas
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Chen Y, Bei M, Woo I, Satokata I, Maas R. Msx1 controls inductive signaling in mammalian tooth morphogenesis. Development 1996; 122:3035-44. [PMID: 8898217 DOI: 10.1242/dev.122.10.3035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Members of the Msx homeobox family are thought to play important roles in inductive tissue interactions during vertebrate organogenesis, but their precise developmental function has been unclear. Mice deficient for Msx1 exhibit defects in craniofacial development and a failure of tooth morphogenesis, with an arrest in molar tooth development at the E13.5 bud stage. Because of its potential for experimental manipulation, the murine molar tooth germ provides a powerful system for studying the role of Msx genes in inductive signaling during organogenesis. To further analyze the role of Msx1 in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during tooth morphogenesis, we have examined the expression of several potential Msx1 downstream genes in Msx1 mutant tooth germs and we have performed functional experiments designed to order these genes into a pathway. Our results show that expression of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 (BMP4), the HMG box gene Lef1 and the heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1 is specifically reduced in Msx1 mutant dental mesenchyme, while expression of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin is unaffected. BMP4 soaked beads can induce Bmp4 and Lef1 expression in explanted wild-type dental mesenchymes, but only Lef1 expression in Msx1 mutant dental mesenchyme. We thus conclude that epithelial BMP4 induces its own expression in dental mesenchyme in a manner that requires Msx1. In turn, we show that addition of BMP4 to Msx1 deficient tooth germs bypasses the requirement for Msx1 and rescues epithelial development from the bud stage to the E14.5 cap stage. Lastly, we show that FGFs induce syndecan-1 expression in dental mesenchyme in a manner that also requires Msx-1. These results integrate Msx1 into a regulatory hierarchy in early tooth morphogenesis and demonstrate that Msx1 is not only expressed in dental mesenchyme in response to epithelial signals, but also in turn regulates the reciprocal expression of inductive signals in the mesenchyme which then act back upon the dental epithelium. We propose that Msx genes function repetitively during vertebrate organogenesis to permit inductive signaling to occur back and forth between tissue layers.
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- Y Chen
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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BACKGROUND Fibroblasts are the predominant cells of the periodontal ligament (PL) and have important roles in the development, function, and regeneration of the tooth support apparatus. Biological processes initiated during the formation of the PL contribute to the long-lasting homeostasic properties exhibited by PL fibroblast populations. DEVELOPMENT The formation of the PL is likely controlled by epithelial-mesenchymal and epithelial hard tissue interactions, but the actual mechanisms that contribute to the development of cellular lineages in the PL are unknown. Fibroblasts in the normally functioning PL migrate through the tissue along collagen fibres to cementum and bone and in an apico-coronal direction during tooth eruption. ADULT TISSUE: Cell kinetic experiments have shown that PL fibroblasts comprise a renewal cell system in steady-state and the progenitors can generate multiple types of more differentiated, specialized cells. Progenitor cell populations of the PL are enriched in locations adjacent to blood vessels and in contiguous endosteal spaces. In normally functioning periodontal tissues, there is a relatively modest turnover of cells in which apoptotic cell death balances proliferation. Large increases of cell formation and cell differentiation occur after application of orthodontic forces or wounding. As PL cells comprise multiple cellular phenotypes, it has been postulated that after wounding, the separate phenotypes repopulating the site will ultimately dictate the tissue form and type. CONCLUSIONS PL fibroblasts play an essential role in responses to mechanical force loading of the tooth by remodelling and repairing effete or damaged matrix components. In consideration of the important roles played by fibroblasts in PL homeostasis, they could be described as "the architect, builder, and caretaker" of the periodontal ligament.
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- P Lekic
- MRC Group in Periodontal Physiology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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BACKGROUND Cementum continues to be the least-known mineralized tissue. Although recent advances in the field of molecular biology have contributed to an understanding of the involvement of molecular factors in cementum formation during development and regeneration, cementogenesis on a cell biological basis is still poorly understood. Virtually nothing is known about cementoblast origin, differentiation, and the cell dynamics during normal development, repair, and regeneration. This review describes the recent findings of cementogenesis on roots of human premolars and opposes them to those of teeth from other mammals, particularly the rodent molar. METHODS Using light and electron microscopy, light microscopic radioautography, and various measurements, a comprehensive insight into the development and repair of cementum during and after root formation and tooth eruption has been achieved for human premolars. RESULTS Cementum is a highly responsive mineralized tissue. This biological activity is necessary for root integrity and for bringing and maintaining the tooth in its proper position. With regard to cementum formation and periodontal fiber attachment, considerable species-particularities exist that are mainly based on differences in growth rates and tooth sizes. Since root development and initial cementogenesis last on the average 5-7 years in human premolars, cementum formation in these teeth is characterized by along-lasting phase of prefunctional development, with occurs independent of principal periodontal fiber attachment to the root and which may take 5 years or more. The first molar of the rat, however, is in functional occlusion 3 1/2 weeks after the onset of root formation. Since initial cementum formation and periodontal fiber attachment to the root occur almost at the same time in this tooth, the distinction between cells associated with one or the other process is very difficult to achieve, and cementogenesis cannot be described independent of periodontal fiber attachment to the root. Therefore, the determination of cementoblast origin in the rodent molar may be intricate. CONCLUSIONS Taking into account these species differences, the current description on the origin and differentiation of cementoblasts is inconsistent and the description of cementogenesis is still incomplete. This review calls into question the currently held concept of cementogenesis and offers a possible alternative.
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- D D Bosshardt
- Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Stomatology, University of Montreal, Canada
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Koyama E, Yamaai T, Iseki S, Ohuchi H, Nohno T, Yoshioka H, Hayashi Y, Leatherman JL, Golden EB, Noji S, Pacifici M. Polarizing activity, Sonic hedgehog, and tooth development in embryonic and postnatal mouse. Dev Dyn 1996; 206:59-72. [PMID: 9019247 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199605)206:1<59::aid-aja6>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Tooth development involves reciprocal epithelial-mesenchymal interactions, polarized growth, mesenchyme condensation, and complex morphogenetic events. Because these processes bear similarities to those occurring in the developing limb, we asked whether morphogenetic signals found in the limb also occur in the developing tooth. We grafted mouse embryo tooth germs to the anterior margin of host chick embryo wing buds and determined whether the dental tissues had polarizing activity. Indeed, the grafts induced supernumerary digits. Activity of both molar and incisor tooth germs increased from bud to cap stages and was maximal at late bell stage in newborn. With further development the polarizing activity began to decrease, became undetectable in adult molar mesenchyme but persisted in incisor mesenchyme, correlating with the fact that incisors grow throughout postnatal life while molars do not. When different portions of neonatal incisors were assayed, a clear proximo-distal gradient of activity was apparent, with maximal activity restricted to the most proximal portion where undifferentiated mesenchyme and enamel organ reside. In situ hybridizations demonstrated that prior to induction of supernumerary digits, the tooth germ grafts induced expression in host tissue of Hoxd-12 and Hoxd-13. In addition, whole-mount in situ hybridizations and immunohistochemistry showed that developing tooth germs express Sonic hedgehog (Shh). Shh expression was first detected in bud stage tooth germs; at later stages Shh transcripts were prominent in enamel knot and differentiating ameloblasts at the cuspal region. We concluded that tooth germs possess polarizing activity and produce polarizing factors such as Shh. As in the limb, these factor(s) and activity probably play key roles in establishing polarity and regulating morphogenesis during early tooth development. Given its subsequent association with differentiating ameloblasts, Shh probably participates also in cytogenetic events during odontogenesis.
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- E Koyama
- Department of Anatomy and Histology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Lubbock MJ, Harrison VT, Lumsden AG, Palmer RM. Development and cell fate in interspecific (Mus musculus/Mus caroli) intraocular transplants of mouse molar tooth-germ tissues detected by in situ hybridization. Arch Oral Biol 1996; 41:77-84. [PMID: 8833594 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(95)00094-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Mandibular first molar tooth germs were dissected from Mus musculus (CDI) and Mus caroli (age range: 14-day embryo to 1-day postnatal). Most of the tooth germs were separated enzymically into epithelial and mesenchymal components. Interspecific tissue recombinations and intact M. caroli tooth germs were grown in the anterior chamber of the eye of adult CDI mice for 24 weeks. Recombinations of M. caroli enamel-organ epithelium with M. musculus, dental papilla and follicle mesenchyme developed into normal teeth with advanced root, periodontal ligament and bone formation, thereby confirming extensive epithelial-mesenchymal interactions across the species barrier. Labelling sections by in situ hybridization with a M. musculus-specific DNA probe (pMSat5) showed that almost all cells in the pulp, periodontal ligament and bone were M. musculus, including cementoblasts. Reduced enamel epithelium and epithelial cell rests derived from donor M. caroli enamel organ were unlabelled. This indicates that any cementogenic role of Hertwig's epithelial root sheath must be short-lived. The immunological privilege of the intraocular transplantation site in M. musculus CDI mice did not extend to grafts including xenogeneic M. caroli dental mesenchyme. Thus, intact M. caroli tooth germs and recombinations of M. musculus enamel organ with M. caroli dental papilla and follicle showed limited development, with no root formation, and were populated almost exclusively with labelled host M. musculus lymphocytes.
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- M J Lubbock
- Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Guys Hospital Medical School, London, UK
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McCulloch CA. Origins and functions of cells essential for periodontal repair: the role of fibroblasts in tissue homeostasis. Oral Dis 1995; 1:271-8. [PMID: 8705836 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.1995.tb00193.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A review is undertaken of rodent model systems and cell culture studies that address the role of periodontal fibroblasts in tissue homeostasis in both normal function and after wound healing. RATIONALE Fibroblasts are the predominant cells of the periodontal ligament (PL) and of healthy gingiva and have important roles in the development, function and regeneration of the tooth support apparatus. REVIEW In normally functioning periodontal tissues cell turnover involves generation of new cells by proliferation which in turn is balanced by apoptopic cell death. Consequently PL fibroblasts comprise a renewal cell system in steady-state. PL cell progenitors can generate multiple types of more differentiated, specialized cells including large numbers of fibroblastic cells and more limited numbers of osteogenic or cementogenic cells. However PL fibroblasts constitutively block osteogenesis and thereby maintain the PL width. Proliferating progenitor cell populations of the PL are enriched in locations adjacent to blood vessels and in contiguous endosteal spaces from where they migrate to the body of the PL. Large increases of cell formation and cell differentiation occur after wounding but surprisingly, the cells that repopulate the PL adjacent to the root surface are largely post-mitotic. As PL cell populations comprise multiple lineages, it is likely that after wounding, the separate phenotypes repopulating the wound site will be selected by environmental factors. Further, the specific repopulating lineages will strongly influence the form and function of the nascent tissue. To illustrate the specificity of fibroblast functions, examples of migratory and contractile fibroblast phenotypes are provided which exhibit constitutively different levels of gelsolin and alpha-smooth muscle actin respectively, cytoskeletal proteins which are markers for these cell types. CONCLUSION Fibroblasts contribute to PL homeostasis by their abilities to remodel tissues, to repopulate wounds, to influence the metabolism of other cell types and to create a new fibrous attachment.
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- C A McCulloch
- MRC Group in Periodontal Physiology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The connective tissues of the gingiva and periodontal ligament share a common embryonic development from cells of the cranial neural crest. This review paper describes the relationship of these tissues in tooth germ initiation, development and eruption.
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- R M Palmer
- United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London, UK
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MacNeil RL, Berry J, D'Errico J, Strayhorn C, Somerman MJ. Localization and expression of osteopontin in mineralized and nonmineralized tissues of the periodontium. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1995; 760:166-76. [PMID: 7785893 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb44628.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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To summarize results from various studies focusing on determining the expression/localization of BSP and OPN during tooth root development, there is general agreement that OPN is expressed/localized to the root surface during cementogenesis and is also seen throughout the PDL region. The expression/localization of OPN to odontoblasts and its role in dentinogenesis is less apparent. Recent studies directed at establishing odontoblast cell lines should help to resolve this conflict. Studies on BSP expression during tooth root formation indicate a very precise expression and localization of this molecule during cementogenesis indicating that this molecule may play an important role in the formation of this mineralized tissue. However, as with OPN, the expression of BSP and its role in dentin formation is not clearly defined.
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- R L MacNeil
- Department of Periodontics/Prevention and Geriatrics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1078, USA
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Cementum is a mineralized tissue that acts to connect the periodontal ligament to the tooth root surface. Its composition is very much like bone, being comprised mainly of type I collagen, inorganic mineral and noncollagenous proteins, however the origin of the cells and factors necessary for cementum formation have yet to be elucidated. Our laboratory has focused on the role that adhesion molecules, and their cell surface receptors, play in the formation of cementum and tooth root. In order to study this, we used a mouse molar as a model system. This system enabled us to study the formation of four distinct mineralized tissues; bone, cementum, dentin and enamel at various stages of their development. For these studies, we initiated experiments to examine potential cementoblast progenitor cells, in vitro. As a first step, we show that dental papilla and dental follicle cells, n vitro, obtained from molar tissues at day 21 of development, induce mineralized nodules, in vitro. In addition, we obtained tissues from mice where defects in root development may exist and determined bone sialoprotein (BSP) protein expression, a mineralized tissue specific adhesion molecule, in such tissues. As discussed here, we found that osteopetrotic (op/op) mice have delayed and/or defective root development and BSP does not localize in the dental tissues, at day 33 of development. In addition, dentin formation was defective and odontoblasts appeared immature, based on morphological examination. In contrast, the day 33 control molars demonstrated positive staining for BSP localized to root cementum, with normal formation of dentin.
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- J A D'Errico
- Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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MacNeil RL, Berry J, D'Errico J, Strayhorn C, Piotrowski B, Somerman MJ. Role of two mineral-associated adhesion molecules, osteopontin and bone sialoprotein, during cementogenesis. Connect Tissue Res 1995; 33:1-7. [PMID: 7554941 DOI: 10.3109/03008209509016974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Adhesion molecules and their cell membrane receptors are known to play important regulatory roles in cell differentiation. Consequently, the following experiments were conducted to determine the role of two adhesion molecules, bone sialoprotein (BSP) and osteopontin (OPN) in tooth root formation. Developing murine molar tooth germs at sequential stages of development (developmental days 21-42) were analyzed using immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization techniques. While BSP was localized to alveolar bone and odontoblasts early in development, BSP was distinctly localized to the cemental root surface at latter periods coincident with the initiation of root formation and cementogenesis. Conversely, OPN was distributed in a nonspecific fashion throughout the PDL and the eruption pathway of the forming tooth. In situ hybridization confirmed that cells lining the root surface express BSP. The fact that BSP is specifically localized to the cemental surface suggests that this protein is involved in cementoblast differentiation and/or early mineralization of the cementum matrix. Localization of OPN to non-mineralized tissues further suggests that OPN functions as an inhibitor of mineralization during periodontal ligament formation. These findings collectively suggest that BSP and OPN are intimately involved in the sequence of cellular and molecular events accompanying cementogenesis.
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- R L MacNeil
- Department of Periodontics/Prevention and Geriatrics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1078, USA
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Satokata I, Maas R. Msx1 deficient mice exhibit cleft palate and abnormalities of craniofacial and tooth development. Nat Genet 1994; 6:348-56. [PMID: 7914451 DOI: 10.1038/ng0494-348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 931] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The Msx1 homeobox gene is expressed at diverse sites of epithelial-mesenchymal interaction during vertebrate embryogenesis, and has been implicated in signalling processes between tissue layers. To determine the phenotypic consequences of its deficiency, we prepared mice lacking Msx1 function. All Msx1- homozygotes manifest a cleft secondary palate, a deficiency of alveolar mandible and maxilla and a failure of tooth development. These mice also exhibit abnormalities of the nasal, frontal and parietal bones, and of the malleus in the middle ear. Msx1 thus has a critical role in mediating epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during craniofacial bone and tooth development. The Msx1-/Msx1- phenotype is similar to human cleft palate, and provides a genetic model for cleft palate and oligodontia in which the defective gene is known.
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- I Satokata
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Pitaru S, McCulloch CA, Narayanan SA. Cellular origins and differentiation control mechanisms during periodontal development and wound healing. J Periodontal Res 1994; 29:81-94. [PMID: 8158503 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0765.1994.tb01095.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In the context of cellular origins, odontogenic epithelium and oral epithelium are the sources for junctional epithelium during development and during wound healing respectively. In contrast, both odontogenic and non-odontogenic mesenchyme contain the progenitors for gingival fibroblasts in developing tissues while in wounded tissues, gingival fibroblasts are derived from gingival connective tissues and comprise a heterogeneous population of cells with diverse properties and functions. Periodontal ligament, bone and cementum cell populations apparently originate from dental follicle progenitor cells during development, but during wound healing derive from ancestral cells in periodontal ligament and bone. Cellular differentiation in developing periodontium is governed in part by epithelial-mesenchymal interactions that generate specific signals which regulate selective cell populations in time and space. On the other hand, differentiation during wound healing and regeneration is regulated by a vast array of extracellular matrix informational molecules and by cytokines that induce both selective and non-selective responses in the different cell lineages and their precursors. Further, several important signalling systems are irretrievably lost after development is complete. Thus, in the context of cellular origins and differentiation, developing and wounded periodontal tissues exhibit fundamental differences. Future prospects for improved healing and regeneration of periodontal tissues may derive from identification and isolation of informational molecules that are stored in connective tissue matrices. These molecules and elucidation of their functions may open new perspectives in our understanding of the biology of periodontal wound healing and may provide novel approaches to periodontal regeneration.
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- S Pitaru
- Department of Oral Biology, Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- R L MacNeil
- Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Vojinović O, Vojinović J. Periodontal cell migration into the apical pulp during the repair process after pulpectomy in immature teeth: an autoradiographic study. J Oral Rehabil 1993; 20:637-52. [PMID: 10412487 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2842.1993.tb01652.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The migration of dental papilla cells into the periodontium during the process of root development may occur as part of the process involved in the formation of the periodontal tissues. The question posed is whether such cells under pathological conditions could retromigrate from periodontium into dental pulp and together with other apical pulp cells of immature teeth, take part in the production of additional dental tissue, e.g. 1) the tertiary/dentine under deep carious lesion where odontoblasts had been destroyed 2) the dentine bridge on an amputation wound and 3) calcified tissue which closes an apex during the apexification process in immature teeth. The migration of periodontal cells locally marked by H3 thymidine immediately after partial pulpectomy in immature dog's teeth was analysed at observation periods of 2, 24 and 50 h and also without H3 thymidine labelling of periodontal cells 8 weeks after pulpectomy. The marked cells were found in the early observation periods after pulpectomy just in the places where the hard tissues were formed in the later observation period of 8 weeks. They were found in large numbers just around the coagulated necrotic foci. The finding supports the assumption that firm necrotic masses are a very important stimulative factor in the reparation process in pulp and periodontium. The experiment also corroborated the existence of periodontal cell retromigration into apical dental papilla of immature teeth. Future research should assess the possible role of the pathological condition in the determination of undifferentiated odontogenic ectomesenchymal periodontal cells into odontoblasts.
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- O Vojinović
- Stomatoloski Fakultet, Klinika za Decju i Preventivnu Stomatologiju, Beograd, Serbia
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Gorski JP, Marks SC. Current concepts of the biology of tooth eruption. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL BIOLOGISTS 1992; 3:185-206. [PMID: 1571471 DOI: 10.1177/10454411920030030201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tooth eruption is defined as the movement of a tooth from its site of development within the jaws to its position of function within the oral cavity. We present a critical review of evidence for the mechanisms and regulation of the intraosseous and supraosseous phases of eruption, with an emphasis upon the canine premolar model studied by the authors. Analyses at different stages of premolar eruption indicate that selective fragmentation of dental follicle protein DF-95 correlates with the presence of elevated levels of follicular collagenase and stromelysin, and with the onset of premolar movement. A dramatic decrease in these metalloproteinases followed initiation of movement. A biochemical and cell biological model for regulation of tooth eruption is proposed based upon these new and existing data.
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- J P Gorski
- Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Basic Life Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City 64110-2499
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An odontogenic tumor in the maxilla of a male Wistar rat is described. The tumor consisted of large epithelial areas with peripheral palissading and with juxtaepithelial material resembling dentin. The neoplastic odontogenic epithelium seems capable of inducing peridental mesenchyme to form a kind of dental hard tissue normally not present at that site.
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- P J Slootweg
- Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Schroeder HE. Biological problems of regenerative cementogenesis: synthesis and attachment of collagenous matrices on growing and established root surfaces. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1992; 142:1-59. [PMID: 1487394 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62074-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- H E Schroeder
- Department of Oral Structural Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Vainio S, Jalkanen M, Vaahtokari A, Sahlberg C, Mali M, Bernfield M, Thesleff I. Expression of syndecan gene is induced early, is transient, and correlates with changes in mesenchymal cell proliferation during tooth organogenesis. Dev Biol 1991; 147:322-33. [PMID: 1717321 DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(91)90290-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Syndecan is an integral cell surface proteoglycan which contains an extracellular matrix-binding domain and a cytoskeleton-associated domain and may therefore transfer changes in the extracellular environment to cellular behavior. Changes in syndecan gene expression during embryonic and early postnatal mouse tooth development were analyzed by in situ hybridization and compared with the distribution of syndecan core protein and cell proliferation studied by immunohistochemistry. Syndecan RNA became accumulated in the condensing mesenchymal cells around the invaginating epithelial tooth bud during early development, and this accumulation became more intense when morphogenesis advanced to the cap stage. During the bell stage, when the cuspal pattern of the tooth is established, syndecan transcripts were lost, and RNA was not detected in the terminally differentiated or postmitotic odontoblasts. In the epithelium, syndecan RNA was intensely expressed in the invaginating epithelial bud, but the expression was reduced during the cap and bell stages. However, local stimulation in syndecan gene expression was observed in the epithelial preameloblasts immediately preceding their terminal differentiation into ameloblasts, which was accompanied by a complete loss of transcripts. There was a close correlation between the changes in syndecan transcripts and the distribution of syndecan core protein. Furthermore, analysis of cell proliferation by immunohistochemical detection of BrdU incorporation revealed that in the mesenchyme, but not in the epithelium, syndecan was intensely expressed by proliferating cells. The analysis of mRNA by Northern blot indicated that the transcripts in mesenchymal and epithelial cells were of similar size. In the slot-blot analysis the changes in syndecan transcripts correlated with the overall changes observed in the in situ hybridization analysis. The role of tissue interactions in the regulation of the syndecan gene was studied by using tissue recombination cultures of separated epithelial and mesenchymal components of the early tooth germ. The in situ hybridization and Northern blot analysis of these explants showed that the expression was increased in the mesenchyme cultured in contact with the epithelium. Our results indicate that syndecan gene expression in the embryonic tooth mesenchyme is induced by epithelial-mesenchymal interactions and thereafter expressed stage-dependently and transiently by the differentiating cells during organogenesis. The association of syndecan expression with mesenchymal cell proliferation raises the possibility that, in addition to behaving as a matrix receptor, syndecan may have a role in controlling growth and that syndecan may have different functions in epithelial and mesenchymal cells.
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- S Vainio
- Department of Pedodontics and Orthodontics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Fibroblasts are the principal cell type in the soft connective tissues of the periodontium; they perform important functions in development, physiology, and disease. A growing number of reports have indicated site-specific phenotypic variation of fibroblasts. Heterogeneity of metabolic traits has been demonstrated in cells from healthy and diseased tissues. The tissue distribution and relative proportions of fibroblast subpopulations have a significant impact on the regulation of connective tissue function in health and disease.
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Smith MM, Hall BK. Development and evolutionary origins of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1990; 65:277-373. [PMID: 2205303 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1990.tb01427.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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This review deals with the following seven aspects of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues. 1. The evolutionary sequence in which the tissues appeared amongst the lower craniate taxa. 2. The topographic association between skeletal (cartilage, bone) and dental (dentine, cement, enamel) tissues in the oldest vertebrates of each major taxon. 3. The separate developmental origin of the exo- and endoskeletons. 4. The neural-crest origin of cranial skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues in extant vertebrates. 5. The neural-crest origin of trunk dermal skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues in extant vertebrates. 6. The developmental processes that control differentiation of skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues in extant vertebrates. 7. Maintenance of developmental interactions regulating skeletogenic/odontogenic differentiation across vertebrate taxa. We derive twelve postulates, eight relating to the earliest vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues and four relating to the development of these tissues in extant vertebrates and extrapolate the developmental data back to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletogenic and odontogenic tissues. The conclusions that we draw from this analysis are as follows. 8. The dermal exoskeleton of thelodonts, heterostracans and osteostracans consisted of dentine, attachment tissue (cement or bone), and bone. 9. Cartilage (unmineralized) can be inferred to have been present in heterostracans and osteostracans, and globular mineralized cartilage was present in Eriptychius, an early Middle Ordovician vertebrate unassigned to any established group, but assumed to be a stem agnathan. 10. Enamel and possibly also enameloid was present in some early agnathans of uncertain affinities. The majority of dentine tubercles were bare. 11. The contemporaneous appearance of cellular and acellular bone in heterostracans and osteostracans during the Ordovician provides no clue as to whether one is more primitive than the other. 12. We interpret aspidin as being developmentally related to the odontogenic attachment tissues, either closer to dentine or a form of cement, rather than as derived from bone. 13. Dentine is present in the stratigraphically oldest (Cambrian) assumed vertebrate fossils, at present some only included as Problematica, and is cladistically primitive, relative to bone. 14. The first vertebrate exoskeletal skeletogenic ability was expressed as denticles of dentine. 15. Dentine, the bone of attachment associated with dentine, the basal bone to which dermal denticles are fused and cartilage of the Ordovician agnathan dermal exoskeleton were all derived from the neural crest and not from mesoderm. Therefore the earliest vertebrate skeletogenic/odontogenic tissues were of neural-crest origin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- M M Smith
- Unit of Anatomy in Relation to Dentistry, United Medical School, Guy's Hospital, London Bridge, U.K
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Thomas HF, Kollar EJ. Differentiation of odontoblasts in grafted recombinants of murine epithelial root sheath and dental mesenchyme. Arch Oral Biol 1989; 34:27-35. [PMID: 2783039 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(89)90043-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The epithelial root sheath (ERS) was isolated from first molars of 5-day-old post-natal CD-1 mice using trypsin. After isolation, ERS cells remained viable in vitro and immunohistochemical examination of cultures confirmed the epithelial phenotype and the absence of mesenchymal contamination. Recombinants of isolated ERS and dental papilla resulted in odontoblast differentiation within cells of the dental papilla, and the formation of root-like fragments of dentine after 2 weeks of intra-ocular grafting. These findings indicate the inductive influence of the ERS on dental papilla cells.
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- H F Thomas
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06032
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Tritiated thymidine was injected into 10- and 13-day-old mice because at this age the third molar is at the appropriate stage of development. At set intervals, the mice were killed and the distribution of labeled cells within the dental papilla and follicle examined. The change in labeling index with time was measured for defined areas in the papilla and follicle. It was shown that, during the late bell stage of development, cells moved from the papilla into the follicle. It was concluded that the pulp, rather than the investing layer of the follicle, is the source of the periodontium and that growth of the pulp and periodontal tissues could generate an important force contributing to tooth eruption.
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- J W Osborn
- Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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