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Zhan C, Huang M, Yang X, Hou J. Dental nerves: a neglected mediator of pulpitis. Int Endod J 2020; 54:85-99. [PMID: 32880979 DOI: 10.1111/iej.13400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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As one of the most densely innervated tissues, the dental pulp contains abundant nerve fibres, including sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibres. Studies in animal models and human patients with pulpitis have revealed distinct alterations in protein expression and histological appearance in all types of dental nerve fibres. Various molecules secreted by neurons, such as classical neurotransmitters, neuropeptides and amino acids, not only contribute to the induction, sensitization and maintenance of tooth pain, but also regulate non-neuronal cells, including fibroblasts, odontoblasts, immune cells and vascular endothelial cells. Dental nerves are particularly important for the microcirculatory and immune responses in pulpitis via their release of a variety of functional substances. Further, nerve fibres are found to be involved in dental soft and hard tissue repair. Thus, understanding how dental nerves participate in pulpitis could have important clinical ramifications for endodontic treatment. In this review, the roles of dental nerves in regulating pulpal inflammatory processes are highlighted and their implications for future research on this topic are discussed.
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- C Zhan
- Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Influence of mast cells in drug-induced gingival overgrowth. Mediators Inflamm 2013; 2013:275172. [PMID: 23431239 PMCID: PMC3569901 DOI: 10.1155/2013/275172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2012] [Revised: 12/07/2012] [Accepted: 12/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Mast cells (MCs) are multifunctional effector cells that were originally thought to be involved in allergic disorders. Now it is known that they contain an array of mediators with a multitude of effects on many other cells. MCs have become a recent concern in drug-induced gingival overgrowth (DIGO), an unwanted outcome of systemic medication. Most of the studies have confirmed the significant presence of inflammation as a prerequisite for the overgrowth to occur. The inflammatory changes within the gingival tissue appear to influence the interaction between the inducing drug and the fibroblast activity. The development of antibodies to MC-specific enzymes, tryptase and chymase, has facilitated the study of mast cells in DIGO. Many immunohistochemical studies involving MCs have been conducted; as a result, DIGO tissues are found to have increased the number of MCs in the gingiva, especially in the area of fibrosis. At the cellular level, gingival fibrogenesis is initiated by several mediators which induce the recruitment of a large number of inflammatory cells, including MCs. The purpose of this paper is to access the roles played by MCs in gingival overgrowth to hypothesize a relationship between these highly specialized cells in the pathogenesis of DIGO.
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O'Sullivan M, Tipton KF, McDevitt WE. Immunolocalization of semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase in human dental pulp and its activity towards serotonin. Arch Oral Biol 2002; 47:399-406. [PMID: 12015221 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9969(02)00009-2] [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: 11/20/2022]
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The semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (EC 1.4.3.6; SSAO) from crude homogenates of human dental pulp was shown to catalyse the oxidative deamination of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin; 5-HT) with a K(m) of 318+/-52 microM. In this respect the human enzyme resembles that in pig dental pulp, but differs from SSAO in all other tissues studied, which are inactive towards 5-HT. A method is described for obtaining intact dental pulp in which the anatomical details are preserved. Extracted teeth are frozen in dry ice and later defrosted rapidly before being fractured in a mechanical vice, facilitating pulp removal. Immunohistochemistry showed SSAO in the odontoblast layer, nerve fibres and blood vessels. The presence of SSAO in nerves in dental pulp appears to be unique. Tryptophan hydroxylase, a key enzyme in 5-HT synthesis, was also demonstrated in nerves and the odontoblast layer of human dental pulp.
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- M O'Sullivan
- Department of Restorative Dentistry and Periodontology, School of Dental Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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The aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of alpha(1)- and alpha(2)-adrenoceptors involved in sympathetic-evoked vasoconstrictor responses in tissues perfused by the lingual arterial circulation in pentobarbital anesthetized cats. Blood flow in the lingual artery was measured by ultrasonic flowmetry. Laser-Doppler flowmetry was utilized to measure oral tissue vasoconstrictor responses in the maxillary gingiva and from the surface of the tongue. Electrical stimulation of the preganglionic superior cervical sympathetic nerve resulted in frequency-dependent blood flow decreases at all three sites. These responses were stable over time and were uniformly antagonized by administration of phentolamine (0.3 - 3.0 mg kg(-1)). The selective alpha(1)-adrenoceptor antagonist, prazosin (10 - 300 microg kg(-1)), attenuated vasoconstriction in the lingual artery and gingiva, but was ineffective in blocking vasoconstriction in the tongue. Subsequent administration of rauwolscine (300 microg kg(-1)) antagonized remaining vasoconstrictor responses. In contrast, rauwolscine (10 - 300 microg kg(-1)), given alone, blocked evoked vasoconstriction in the tongue, and was without effect on gingival or lingual artery vasoconstrictor responses. Subsequent administration of prazosin (300 microg kg(-1)) largely antagonized remaining neurally elicited responses. These results suggest that neural vasoconstrictor responses in some regional vascular beds in the cat oral cavity are mediated by both alpha(1)- and alpha(2)-adrenoceptors. In contrast, tongue surface vasoconstrictor responses to sympathetic nerve activation appear to be mediated primarily by alpha(2)-adrenoceptors.
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- Michael C Koss
- Department of Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, P.O. Box 26901, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA.
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Koss MC, Yu Y. Role of nitric oxide in maintenance of basal oral tissue blood flow in anesthetized cats. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 2000; 35:159-64. [PMID: 11744238 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-3623(01)00103-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Experiments were undertaken to determine if nitric oxide (NO) plays a role in regulation of basal blood flow in the oral cavity of pentobarbital anesthetized cats and, if so, to quantify this effect using dose-response relationships. Blood flow was continuously measured from the surface of the tongue and mandibular gingiva (laser-Doppler flowmetry) and from the lingual artery (ultrasonic flowmetry). Cardiovascular parameters also were recorded. Administration of the nonselective inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), L-NAME (0.08-20 mg/kg i.v.), produced a dose-related increase of blood pressure associated with decreases of blood flow at all three measurement sites. Maximal blood flow depression of 50-60% was seen 30-60 min after administration of 1.25 mg/kg of L-NAME. D-NAME (1.25 mg/kg i.v.) was inactive at all sites. Subsequent administration of L-arginine partially reversed effects of L-NAME in the lingual artery and tongue, but not in the gingival circulation. The neuronally selective NOS inhibitor, 7-nitroindazole (7-NI, 30 mg/kg i.p.), was devoid of effect on any of the measured parameters. These results suggest that endothelial (but not neuronally derived) NO plays an important role in control of basal blood flow in oral tissues of the cat.
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- M C Koss
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine, 940 Stanton L. Young Street, Biomed. Res. Sci. Building 724, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA.
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Inoue K, Mogi M, Mori R, Naito J, Fukuda S, Creveling CR. Immunocytochemical localization of serotonin, monoamine oxidase and assessment of monoamine oxidase activity in human dental pulp. Brain Res 2000; 853:374-6. [PMID: 10640636 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)02170-8] [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: 10/18/2022]
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In the present study serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) and monoamine oxidase (MAO) were both found localized in the blood vessel walls of human dental pulp. Our discovery of MAO activity in human dental pulp suggests a functional relationship between serotonin and MAO in this region.
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- K Inoue
- Department of Oral Anatomy, Matsumoto Dental University, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
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Izumi H. Functional roles played by the sympathetic supply to lip blood vessels in the cat. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:R682-9. [PMID: 10484484 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.277.3.r682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the anesthetized cat we used laser-Doppler flowmetry to investigate the part played by cervical superior sympathetic trunk (CST) fibers in the control of blood vessels in an orofacial area (the lower lip). The blood flow increase (antidromic vasodilatation) elicited by inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) stimulation was not affected by ongoing repetitive CST stimulation over the frequency range examined (0.2-10 Hz), although reflex parasympathetic vasodilatation was attenuated. The vasoconstrictor responses elicited by IAN stimulation in some preparations were reduced in a frequency-dependent manner (at 0.2-1 Hz) during ongoing CST stimulation (and replaced by vasodilator responses). The vasoconstrictor response evoked directly by brief CST stimulation was attenuated, but not transformed to a vasodilator response, by ongoing CST stimulation. Thus in the cat lower lip 1) sympathetic stimulation attenuated one type of vasodilator response (parasympathetic-mediated vasodilatation), but not another (antidromic vasodilatation), and 2) ongoing sympathetic (CST) stimulation at low frequencies (<1 Hz) prevented further sympathetic-mediated vasoconstriction.
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- H Izumi
- Department of Orofacial Functions, Tohoku University School of Dentistry, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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Norevall LI, Matsson L, Forsgren S. 5-Hydroxytryptamine immunoreactivity is detectable in sympathetic nerve fibres in rat oral tissues. THE HISTOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 1996; 28:485-93. [PMID: 8872138 DOI: 10.1007/bf02331408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The aim of this investigation was to examine if 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is detectable not only in mast cells but also in sympathetic nerve fibres in oral sites of the rat, including the periodontal ligament, pulp, palatal mucosa, and vestibular sulcus. Antibodies against 5-HT and tyrosine hydroxylase were used. Maxillae from rats were dissected free, fixed, decalcified, cut transversally, and processed for immunohistochemistry. Nerve fibres showing 5-HT-like immunoreactivity were regularly observed in the walls of the arteries and arterioles in the vestibular sulcus and the periodontal ligament. However, 5-HT-like immunoreactivity was not seen in the walls of the vessels of the palatal mucosa. Interestingly, 5-HT-like immunoreactivity coexisted with tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactivity in the innervation of the periodontal ligament and the vestibular sulcus. Thus, the present study gives morphological correlate for the occurrence of effects of 5-HT derived not only from mast cells but also from sympathetic nerve fibres in oral tissues. The source of 5-HT in the nerve fibres as well as the functional implications of the observations remain to be determined.
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- L I Norevall
- Department of Orthodontics, Umeå University, Sweden
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Olgart L. Neural control of pulpal blood flow. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL BIOLOGISTS 1996; 7:159-71. [PMID: 8875030 DOI: 10.1177/10454411960070020401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Blood flow of mammalian dental pulp is under both remote and local control. There is evidence for the existence of parasympathetic nerves in the pulp, but functionally the cholinergic influence is weak, and the physiological significance of this autonomic system seems to be low. The evidence for sympathetic vasoconstrictor nerves in the pulp is robust, and there is convincing support for the contention that these nerves play a physiological role, operating via release of noradrenaline and neuropeptide Y. However, there is no significant functional evidence in support of sympathetic beta-adrenoceptor-mediated vasodilation in the pulp. The local control of blood flow involves a subset of intradental sensory nerves. By virtue of their neuropeptide content, these afferent fibers cause vasodilation and inhibit sympathetic vasoconstriction in response to painful stimulation of the tooth. Such locally governed control may serve to meet immediate demands of the pulp tissue. A locally triggered reflex activation of sympathetic nerves in the pulp may modulate this control and limit its magnitude. Thus, there are competitive interactions between local and remote vascular controls which may be put out of balance in the injured and inflamed dental pulp.
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- L Olgart
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kerezoudis NP, Fried K, Olgart L. Haemodynamic and immunohistochemical studies of rat incisor pulp after denervation and subsequent re-innervation. Arch Oral Biol 1995; 40:815-23. [PMID: 8651885 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(95)00048-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The effects of injury to the inferior alveolar nerve on the distribution of neuropeptides and neurogenic blood-flow reactions were studied in rat mandibular dental pulp. In normal incisor pulps, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity was common, while substance P- and neurokinin (NKA)-positive nerve fibres were much less abundant. There were no signs of vasoactive intestinal peptide-like, neuropeptide Y-like or 5-hydroxytryptamine-like immunoreactivity. In normal pulps, electrical stimulation (100 microA, 5 ms, 15 Hz for 30 s) of the tooth crown resulted in transient vasoconstriction followed by vasodilation, which was enhanced after alpha-adrenoceptor blockade. At 3 days-4 weeks after unilateral nerve section there were no signs of CGRP-, substance P- and NKA-immunoreactivity, and there was no vasodilation in response to tooth stimulation. The vasoconstrictor response was also absent during this period but at 4 weeks postoperatively a weak response was obtained and after 7 weeks the vasoconstrictor response had regained normal amplitude. At 7 weeks postoperatively, a large number of CGRP-positive fibres had reappeared and at 11 weeks the pattern of CGRP-immunoreactivity was normal. However, substance P- and NKA-immunoreactivity were not found at 7 or 11 weeks after surgery. Vasodilator responses appeared at 7 weeks, and showed normal amplitude at 11 weeks after the creation of the nerve lesion. The results show that during nerve regeneration, sympathetic vasoconstriction was regained earlier than neurogenic vasodilation in rat incisor teeth. The reappearance of neurogenic vasodilation after nerve injury was temporarily associated with the presence of CGRP-immunoreactivity in regenerating trigeminal afferent nerves.
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- N P Kerezoudis
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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