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Ohki R, Matsuki-Fukushima M, Fujikawa K, Mayahara M, Matsuyama K, Nakamura M. In the absence of a basal lamina, ameloblasts absorb enamel in a serumless and chemically defined organ culture system. J Oral Biosci 2021; 63:66-73. [PMID: 33493674 DOI: 10.1016/j.job.2020.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Tooth organ development was examined in a serumless, chemically defined organ culture system to determine whether morphological and functional development was identical to that in in vivo and serum-supplemented organ cultures. METHODS Mouse mandibular first molar tooth organs at 16 days of gestation were cultured for up to 28 days in a Tronwell culture system using a serum-supplemented or serumless, chemically defined medium. After culture, specimens were processed for assessing tooth development using ultrastructural, immunohistochemical, and mRNA expression analyses. RESULTS In serum-supplemented conditions, inner enamel epithelial cells differentiated into secretory-stage ameloblasts, which formed enamel and reached the maturation stage after 14 and 21 days of culture, respectively. Ameloblasts deposited a basal lamina on immature enamel. Conversely, in serumless conditions, ameloblasts formed enamel on mineralized dentin after 21 days. Moreover, maturation-stage ameloblasts did not form basal lamina and directly absorbed mineralized enamel after 28 days of culture. RT-PCR analysis indicated that tooth organs, cultured in serumless conditions for 28 days, had significantly reduced expression levels of ODAM, amelotin, and laminin-322. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that several differences were detected compared to the development in serum-supplemented conditions, such as delayed enamel and dentin formation and the failure of maturation-stage ameloblasts to form basal laminae. Therefore, our results suggest that some factors might be required for the steady formation of mineralized dentin, enamel, and a basal lamina. Additionally, our results indicate that a basal lamina is necessary for enamel maturation.
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- Retsu Ohki
- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan
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- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan
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- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan
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- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan
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- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan
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- Department of Oral Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Showa University School of Dentistry, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 4142-8555, Japan.
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Rooker SM, Liu B, Helms JA. Role of Wnt signaling in the biology of the periodontium. Dev Dyn 2010; 239:140-7. [PMID: 19530172 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Continuously erupting teeth have associated with them a continuously regenerating periodontal ligament, but the factors that control this amazing regenerative potential are unknown. We used genetic strategies to show that the periodontal ligament arises from the cranial neural crest. Despite their histological similarity, the periodontal ligament of continuously erupting incisor teeth differs dramatically from the periodontal ligament of molar teeth. The most notable difference was in the distribution of Wnt responsive cells in the incisor periodontal ligament, which coincided with regions of periodontal ligament cell proliferation. We discuss these findings in the context of dental tissue regeneration.
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- Scott M Rooker
- Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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Song JS, Stefanik D, Damek-Poprawa M, Alawi F, Akintoye SO. Differentiation and regenerative capacities of human odontoma-derived mesenchymal cells. Differentiation 2008; 77:29-37. [PMID: 19281762 DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2008.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2008] [Revised: 07/01/2008] [Accepted: 07/15/2008] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Regenerating human tooth ex vivo and biological repair of dental caries are hampered by non-viable odontogenic stem cells that can regenerate different tooth components. Odontoma is a developmental dental anomaly that may contain putative post-natal stem cells with the ability to differentiate and regenerate in vivo new dental structures that may include enamel, dentin, cementum and pulp tissues. We evaluated odontoma tissues from 14 patients and further isolated and characterized human odontoma-derived mesenchymal cells (HODCs) with neural stem cell and hard tissue regenerative properties from a group of complex odontoma tissues from 1 of 14 patients. Complex odontoma was more common (9 of 14) than compound type and females (9 of 14) were more affected than males in our set of patients. HODCs were highly proliferative like dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) but demonstrated stronger neural immunophenotype than both DPSCs and mandible bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) by expressing higher levels of nestin, Sox 2 and betaIII-tubulin. When transplanted with hydroxyapatite/tricalcium phosphate into immunocompromised mice, HODCs differentiated and regenerated calcified hard tissues in vivo that were morphologically and quantitatively comparable to those generated by DPSCs and BMSCs. When transplanted with polycaprolactone (biodegradable carrier), HODCs differentiated to form new predentin on the surface of a dentin platform. Newly formed predentin contained numerous distinct dentinal tubules and an apparent dentin-pulp arrangement. HODCs represent unique odontogenic progenitors that readily commit to formation of dental hard tissues.
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- Jin-Seon Song
- Department of Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Slavkin HC, Snead ML, Zeichner-David M, MacDougall M, Fincham A, Lau EC, Luo W, Nakamura M, Oliver P, Evans J. Factors influencing the expression of dental extracellular matrix biomineralization. CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2007; 136:22-41. [PMID: 3068011 DOI: 10.1002/9780470513637.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The forming tooth organ provides a number of opportunities to investigate the cellular and molecular biology of cell-mediated extracellular matrix (ECM) biomineralization. Regulatory processes associated with tooth formation are being investigated by identifying when and where cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), substrate adhesion molecules (SAMs), dentine phosphoprotein and enamel gene products are expressed during sequential developmental stages. In vitro organotypic culture studies in serumless, chemically-defined medium, have shown that instructive and permissive signalling are required for both morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation. Intrinsic developmental instructions (autocrine and paracrine factors) act independently of long-range hormonal or exogenous growth factors and mediate morphogenesis from the initiation of the dental lamina to the crown stages of tooth development. This review summarizes the results of studies using experimental embryology, recombinant DNA technology and immunocytology to elucidate mechanisms responsive to instructive epithelial-mesenchymal interactions associated with ameloblast differentiation, odontoblast differentiation, and dentine and enamel ECM biomineralization.
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- H C Slavkin
- Department of Basic Sciences (Biochemistry), School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-0181
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Fujita S, Hideshima K, Ikeda T. Nestin expression in odontoblasts and odontogenic ectomesenchymal tissue of odontogenic tumours. J Clin Pathol 2006; 59:240-5. [PMID: 16505272 PMCID: PMC1860355 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.025403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Nestin, one of the intermediate filaments constituting the cytoskeleton, is a marker of neural stem cells or progenitor cells. Its expression is also related to tooth development and repair of dentine. AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate nestin expression in various odontogenic tumours and evaluate its usefulness for histopathological diagnosis. METHODS We studied formalin fixed, paraffin embedded specimens from 129 cases of odontogenic tumours and 9 of mandibular intraosseous myxoma. After characterisation of odontogenic ectomesenchymal tissues in these tumours using antibodies to vimentin, desmin, neurofilament, and glial fibrillary acidic protein, we immunohistochemically examined nestin expression. RESULTS No differentiation towards muscle and nervous tissues was found in the odontogenic ectomesenchymal tissues. Although almost all the ameloblastomas and malignant ameloblastomas were negative for nestin, odontogenic ectomesenchyme in the odontogenic mixed tumours demonstrated nestin immunolocalisation, particularly in the region adjacent to the odontogenic epithelium. Odontoblasts and their processes, pulp cells near the positive odontoblasts, and flat cells adhering to the dentine showed immunoreaction with nestin in the odontomas and odontoma-like component in the ameloblastic fibro-odontomas. Neoplastic cells in almost half cases of jaw myxoma and one case of odontogenic fibroma expressed nestin. CONCLUSIONS The distribution of nestin in the odontogenic mixed tumours suggests that nestin expression in the odontogenic ectomesenchyme is upregulated by stimulation from odontogenic epithelium. In addition, nestin may also be involved in the differentiation from pulp cells to odontoblasts in odontogenic tumours. Therefore, nestin is a useful marker for the odontogenic ectomesenchyme and odontoblasts in odontogenic tumours. Nestin, one of the intermediate filaments constituting the cytoskeleton, is a marker of neural stem cells or progenitor cells. Its expression is also related to tooth development and repair of dentine.
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- S Fujita
- Division of Oral Pathology and Bone Metabolism, Department of Developmental and Reconstructive Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Bawden JW, Rozell B, Wurtz T, Fouda N, Hammarström L. Distribution of protein kinase C alpha and accumulation of extracellular Ca2+ during early dentin and enamel formation. J Dent Res 1994; 73:1429-36. [PMID: 8083439 DOI: 10.1177/00220345940730080601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Activation of the protein kinase C (PKC)-related signal transduction system has been associated with phenotypic expression in a wide variety of cell types. In in vitro studies, it has often been activated by relatively small increases in the Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]) in the medium. The studies reported here explored the hypothesis that localized increases in the extracellular [Ca2+] and activation of the PKC-related pathway may be involved in early dentin and enamel formation. Whole-head, freeze-dried sections through the developing molars of 5-day-old rats were evaluated by methods that localized non-crystalline Ca2+. Immunohistochemical methods were adapted for use with the freeze-dried sections, and two monoclonal antibodies were used to localize PKC alpha in the formative cells of the developing teeth. Low concentrations of extracellular Ca2+ were observed in the early, unmineralized dentin in the area of ameloblast differentiation. Increased concentrations occurred at the point of initial dentin mineralization, immediately before the beginning of enamel matrix deposition. PKC alpha was localized in the differentiating odontoblasts, at the beginning of dentin matrix deposition. It was intensely localized in the distal borders of the pre-ameloblasts, and appeared to redistribute in the cells during ameloblast differentiation. These observations suggest that local increases in the extracellular [Ca2+] and the PKC signal transduction pathway may be involved in key inductions in the early stages of dentin and enamel formation.
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- J W Bawden
- Center for Oral Biology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
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Stephan MJ, Brooks KL, Moore DC, Coll EJ, Goho C. Hypothalamic hamartoma in oral-facial-digital syndrome type VI (Váradi syndrome). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1994; 51:131-6. [PMID: 8092188 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320510209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Oral-facial-digital syndrome (OFDS) type VI (Váradi syndrome) is an autosomal recessive trait of orofacial anomalies, cerebellar dysgenesis, and polysyndactyly. Developmental anomalies of the posterior fossa, including cerebellar hypoplasia and variants of the Dandy-Walker complex, are the most common central nervous system malformations reported in patients with this syndrome. We report hypothalamic hamartoma, supernumerary maxillary incisor, and precocious puberty in a boy with OFDS type VI. We propose that hypothalamic hamartoma is an occasional manifestation of OFDS type VI.
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- M J Stephan
- Department of Pediatrics, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA 98431-5000
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Bone grafting the alveolar cleft in cleft lip and palate (CLP) patients is widely accepted. A traditional graft is the iliac crest. Other bone graft donor sites are briefly discussed. The ratio for an ectomesenchymal bone graft in alveolar cleft repair is explained. Aspects of the embryology, bone graft physiology, and reports on mandibular symphysis bone grafting are discussed.
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- R Koole
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Nakamura M, Bringas P, Nanci A, Zeichner-David M, Ashdown B, Slavkin HC. Translocation of enamel proteins from inner enamel epithelia to odontoblasts during mouse tooth development. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 1994; 238:383-96. [PMID: 8179220 DOI: 10.1002/ar.1092380313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The developmental problem of how dental epithelia and/or dental papilla ectomesenchyme induce and/or up- or down-regulate tooth formation are as yet unresolved issues. We have designed studies to map the synthesis and fate pathways of secreted amelogenin proteins from Kallenbach differentiation zones II-IV during in vivo and in vitro mouse mandibular first molar tooth development (M1). Tooth organs from cap, bell, and crown stages were processed for reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and high resolution Protein A immunocytochemistry using anti-amelogenin and anti-peptide antibodies. Cap stage M1 were cultured for periods ranging from 10-21 days in vitro using either serum-less, or 15% fetal calf sera-supplemented, chemically-defined medium. Amelogenin transcripts are expressed in the mouse embryonic molar from E15 through early postnatal development. Amelogenin antigens were first detected in Kallenbach's differentiation zone II. Amelogenin proteins secreted from preameloblasts were identified along cell processes and cell surfaces of odontoblasts adjacent to forming mantle dentine extracellular matrix (ECM) prior to biomineralization. Amelogenin proteins were restricted to forming endocytotic vesicles, clathrin-coated vesicles, and lysosomes within odontoblasts. At later stages (e.g. 2 days postnatal development), enamel proteins were not identified in odontoblasts or predentine matrix following mineralization. Comparable observations for stages of development were noted for in vitro cultured tooth explants. Preameloblasts synthesize and secrete amelogenin proteins which bind to odontoblast cell surfaces possibly through the process of receptor-mediated endocytosis. We conclude that amelogenin proteins secreted from preameloblasts, prior to the initiation of biomineralization, were translocated to odontoblasts to serve as yet unknown biological functions.
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- M Nakamura
- Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033
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Stocks used were male and female monozygotes for Robertsonian translocation specific for chromosomes 16 and 17 Rb(16.17)7Bnr and males and females homozygous for Robertsonian translocation for chromosomes 6 and 16 Rb(6.16)24Lub to produce double heterozygotes characterized as Rb(16.17)Bnr/Rb(6.16)24Lub. This study was based on 156 fetuses, of which 70 were normal (euploid/controls) and 86 were affected trisomics identified grossly by decreased size, shortened faces (flattened snouts), oedema, petechiae, open eyelids and dysplastic ears. Confirmation of trisomics included karyotyping metaphasic spreads. Throughout the five gestational days studied (14-18), trisomic fetuses exhibited developmental delays of up to 24 h. In general, tooth organs were smaller, hypocellular, hypoplastic and had a decreased blood supply. These differences were progressive and more pronounced in the later periods of odontogenesis, especially in the morpho- and histodifferentiation stages.
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- T V Di Stefano
- Department of Anatomy, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland at Baltimore 21201
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Inai T, Nagata K, Kukita T, Kurisu K. Demonstration of amelogenin in the enamel-free cusps of rat molar tooth germs: immunofluorescent and immunoelectron microscopic studies. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 1992; 233:588-96. [PMID: 1626718 DOI: 10.1002/ar.1092330413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The enamel-free cusps of 1-4 day-old rat mandibular first molars were investigated using the monoclonal antibody En3 against rat amelogenin at light and electron microscopic levels in order to clarify whether the enamel-free cusp is virtually devoid of enamel. At 1 day after birth, there were presecretory ameloblast-like cells (PALCs), which were short and were not polarized, at the cusp tips. They were close to the outer enamel epithelium. Hematoxylin positive enamel matrix was not distinctly observed in the enamel-free cusp by light microscopy, but almost continuous immunofluorescence for amelogenin was detected at the interface between PALCs and dentin. The penetration of immunopositive material toward the dental pulp was also observed in the enamel-free cusp. At 4 day after birth, both in the frontal section and in the horizontal section, almost continuous immunofluorescence was recognized at the interface between PALCs and dentin in the enamel-free cusp. The penetration of amelogenin toward the dental pulp was not seen in the enamel-free cusp. By immunoelectron microscopy, immunolabelling was recognized in the Golgi apparatus of PALCs, in a layer of amorphous material at the interface between PALCs and dentin, and in stippled material-like substance in the intercellular space between PALCs. Although no basement membrane was observed beneath PALCs, they did not have Tomes' processes. These investigations suggest that PALCs in the enamel-free cusp differentiate into the secretory cells and that they can synthesize and secrete the amorphous material containing amelogenin at the interface between PALCs and dentin. The penetration of amelogenin toward the dental pulp might play a role in the interaction between PALCs and odontoblasts in the enamel-free cusp and/or the initiation of mineralization of predentin.
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- T Inai
- Second Department of Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Slavkin HC. Molecular determinants of tooth development: a review. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL BIOLOGISTS 1990; 1:1-16. [PMID: 2101258 DOI: 10.1177/10454411900010010201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- H C Slavkin
- School of Dentistry Biochemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Oral mandibular epithelium determines the position and number of tooth organs. Cranial neural crest-derived ectomesenchyme provides inductive signals for (i) tooth shape, and (ii) sequential determination and expression of several different epithelial-derived enamel proteins. Inductive signalling follows a precise sequence, can be expressed in serumless, chemically-defined medium in vitro, and appears to be highly conserved during vertebrate evolution.
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- H C Slavkin
- Department of Basic Sciences (Biochemistry), School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-0191
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The regulatory processes associated with tooth formation are being investigated by the identification of when, where, and how cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), substrate adhesion molecules (SAMs), dentin phosphoprotein, enamel gene products, and intermediate cementum products are expressed during sequential developmental stages of morphogenesis, cytodifferentiation, dentin, enamel and cementum extracellular matrix (ECM) formation, and biomineralization. Instructive and permissive signaling is required for both morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation based upon in vitro organotypic culture studies in serumless, chemically-defined medium. Intrinsic developmental instructions, independent of exogenous growth factors, mediate tooth morphogenesis from the initiation of the dental lamina through crown and initial root development. Recent progress using recombinant DNA methods has advanced descriptions of several dental structural genes. The complete nucleic acid sequence for mouse amelogenin has been defined. This sequence is located on the mouse X chromosome and on the human X and Y chromosomes. This discussion summarizes recent results using experimental embryology, recombinant DNA technology, and immunocytology in the context of instructive epithelial-mesenchymal interactions associated with epithelial differentiation into ameloblasts, ectomesenchyme differentiation into odontoblasts, and dentin and enamel ECM biomineralization. The tooth organ provides opportunities at several levels of biological organization to investigate cellular, molecular, and developmental processes.
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- H C Slavkin
- University of Southern California, School of Dentistry, Department of Basic Sciences, Los Angeles 90089-0191
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Witkop CJ, Keenan KM, Cervenka J, Jaspers MT. Taurodontism: an anomaly of teeth reflecting disruptive developmental homeostasis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS. SUPPLEMENT 1988; 4:85-97. [PMID: 3144989 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320310513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Two models concerning morphometric traits occurring frequently in aneuploidy states posit, respectively, 1) that they reflect the expression of specific major oligogenes for that trait on the chromosome involved or 2) that they result from a generalized disruption of developmental homeostasis. In contrast to previous studies that have investigated variations in morphometric traits in a single aneuploidy state, this study investigates a single morphometric trait, taurodontism, as it occurs in otherwise normal individuals, in nonchromosomal syndromes, and in aneuploidy syndromes to determine whether the trait best fits the oligogene or the disrupted developmental homeostasis model. Taurodontism is diagnosed from dental radiographs. It is an extreme variation in tooth form seen in multirooted teeth in which the bifurcation or trifurcation of the roots is displaced toward the apex of the root, resulting in increased size of the pulp chamber. The point of furcation, and consequently the size of the pulp chamber, is a quasicontinuously distributed trait. The results indicate that taurodontism most likely is the result of disrupted developmental homeostasis.
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- C J Witkop
- Department of Oral Pathology and Genetics, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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