Effect of ascorbic acid deficiency on mouse second molar tooth germs cultivatedin vitro
Open Access
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Development
- Vol. 36 (1), 73-85
- https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.36.1.73
Abstract
Mandibular second molar tooth germs from two-day old mice were cultured in vitro, on millipore membranes, for periods of up to 20 days in liquid medium with or without added ascorbic acid. Tooth germs grown in ascorbate medium were characterized by relatively normal growth, differentiation, morphology and histology. Cuspation patterns were maintained. The epithelial root sheath continued to grow along the millipore membrane. Tooth germs cultured in ascorbate-deficient medium manifested a consistent and striking failure in maintenance of differentiated odontoblastic and ameloblastic tissue with arrest of predentin synthesis, severe structural collapse and reduction in size. Cuspation patterns were lost in scorbutic molars, with sinking of surface layers into pulpal tissue and flattening of the entire organ. This resulted in a lack of recognizable morphology and in severe disorganization of tissues. Only growing areas of the root sheath with associated proliferation of preameloblasts and pre-odontoblasts and adjacent pulpal tissue remained normal and refractory to ascorbate deficiency. Odontoblastic as well as ameloblastic layers were disrupted and cells were dedifferentiated. Newly differentiated odontoblasts became highly vacuolated when they became polarized and started to secrete extracellular matrix.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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