DEVELOPMENT OF SENSORY INNERVATION IN DENTIN
DEVELOPMENT OF SENSORY INNERVATION IN DENTIN
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DOI:
10.1002/cne.901910307
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
BYERS, MR
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作者:
BYERS, MR
Dental nerves of 3-wk- to 1-yr-old rats were labeled by axonal transport of radioactive protein to detect nerves in developing dentin by autoradiography. In addition to nerve growth, 2 processes determine adult dentinal nerve location: enclosure of nerves within circumpulpal dentinal tubules during the last few weeks of dentinogenesis, beginning at the tip of the pulp horn and spreading to include most coronal dentin and gradual loss of the nerves near the tip of the cusp because of dentinal attrition and replacement by noninnervated, reparative dentin were found. Several days before a molar erupts, nerves at the tip of the cusp have already begun to be enclosed by dentin; 2-3 wk later, when dentinogenesis at the cusp tip slows down, most of the innervation for what region was established, nerves extend up to 160 .mu.m into dentin and the molar has reached the stage of functional occlusion. Soon after initial occlusion, the process of dentinal attrition and replacement by noninnervated reparative dentin begins; however, simultaneous dentinogenesis in more apical regions produces new innervated dentin. Nerve position in relation to dentin growth lines was studied. A long-term association of nerve endings with specific sites in the dentinal tubules was found. The similarities between the development of dentinal innervation in rat molars and in human permanent teeth are discussed; it is found that as teeth mature and become more sensitive to painful stimuli, the density of dentinal nerves increases.