QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF CELL TURNOVER IN ENAMEL ORGAN OF RAT INCISOR - EVIDENCE FOR AMELOBLAST DEATH IMMEDIATELY AFTER ENAMEL MATRIX SECRETION
QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF CELL TURNOVER IN ENAMEL ORGAN OF RAT INCISOR - EVIDENCE FOR AMELOBLAST DEATH IMMEDIATELY AFTER ENAMEL MATRIX SECRETION
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DOI:
10.1002/ar.1091870106
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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WARSHAWSKY, H
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作者:
SMITH, CE;WARSHAWSKY, H
During renewal of the enamel organ in the rat incisor cohorts of epithelial cells are transported sequentially through presecretory, secretory and maturation zones to the gingival margin where the life cycles of these cells terminate. This process was examined kinetically by determining the absolute flux of cells within each of these zones of amelogenesis. The efflux of ameloblasts, stratum intermedium and papillary layer cells from the presecretory zone was about equal to the efflux plus expected growth within the secretory zone. However, between the secretory and maturation zones about 50% more ameloblasts entered the maturation zone than were required to account for the egress at the gingival margin and the expected growth. Since there was no similar imbalance between these zones for papillary layer cells, it was concluded that this discrepancy must represent a 50% reduction in the size of the ameloblast population during the maturation stage of amelogenesis. A little over 25% of the loss occurred immediately at the start of maturation within the region of postsecretory transition and the remaining 25% of the loss occurred throughout the subsequent regions of the maturation zone. In addition to the kinetic analysis, graphic reconstructions, or surface maps, of ameloblast nuclei were prepared. These maps illustrated the characteristics of ameloblast nuclear packing within the 3 zones of amelogenesis and they provided quantitative confirmation that as ameloblasts progress through the maturation zone, there is a loss of cells in an amount predicted by the kinetic analysis.