NUCLEAR SIZE AS A CELL-KINETIC MARKER FOR OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION
NUCLEAR SIZE AS A CELL-KINETIC MARKER FOR OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION
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DOI:
10.1002/aja.1001650403
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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通讯作者:
KLINGLER, E
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作者:
ROBERTS, WE;MOZSARY, PG;KLINGLER, E
A nuclear morphometric assay for [rat] preosteoblasts is introduced as a cell-kinetic technique, applicable to routine histological preparations of mineralized tissue. Because this method is a morphological marker for osteoblast precursor cell differentiation, it provides a new dimension for determining the mechanism of osteoblast histogenesis. Osteoblast precursors of the periodontal ligament are a mixed population of progenitors, kinetically separable into 2 distinct groups according to nuclear size. Preosteoblasts, the immediate proliferating percursors of osteoblasts, have large nuclei (> 170 .mu.m3) and are derived from relatively undifferentiated fibroblastlike cells, which have smaller nuclei (< 80 .mu.m3). Increase in nuclear volume, during G1 phase of the cell cycle, is apparently a morphological manifestation of a change in genomic expression. This key event in preosteoblast differentiation is related to mechanical stress/strain and may be an important rate-limiting step in osteoblast histogenesis.