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odontoblast

[ō′dänt·ə‚blast]
(histology)
One of the elongated, dentin-forming cells covering the dental papilla.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Odontoblast

 

the cell that deposits dentin in the teeth of man and vertebrate animals. Its cell body is adjacent to the outer layer of the pulp, and its long outgrowths are within the tubules that perforate the dentin.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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We presume such a strategy may be employed in setting up a tooth bank as reported elsewhere.14 The explant method has been extensively used for studying the dental pulp cells physiology, cell subpopulations capable of differentiating into odontoblasts or mineral-forming cells in vitro15 and dentin-like structure in vitro.16 DPSCs and SHED obtained from enzyme digestion were also capable of differentiating into odontoblast-like cells and produced dentin in vivo.6,7 Furthermore, an immature DPSC (iDPSC) population was obtained from SHED via explant method.
However, dental caries were verified in diabetic group; revealed irregular pulp tissue and the dilation of blood vessels besides hemorrhage and a significant increase in inflammatory cells hyperplasia in odontoblast cells.
Odontoblast markers were evaluated by immunohistochemistry at 7,14, and 21 days after reseeding in fresh and thawed EXP-21 cells.
Autoradiographic analysis of odontoblast replacement following pulp exposure in primate teeth.
Our data showed that ginsenoside Rg1 significantly stimulated DPSCs proliferation and promoted the odontoblast differentiation.
NGF was also characterized as a potent promoter of mineralization during dentin formation and it also promotes in vitro odontoblast differentiation (26).
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