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Disruption of Nfic Causes Dissociation of Odontoblasts by Interfering With the Formation of Intercellular Junctions and Aberrant Odontoblast Differentiation

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Lee, Tae-Yeon; Lee, Dong-Seol; Kim, Hyun-Man; Ko, Jea Seung; Gronostajski, Richard M.; Cho, Moon-Il; Son, Ho-Hyun; Park, Joo-Cheol

Issue Date
2009-05
Publisher
Histochemical Society
Citation
JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY Vol.57 No.5, pp. 469-476
Keywords
복합학Nficodontoblastabnormal dentinroot formationosteodentin
Abstract
We reported previously that Nfic-deficient mice exhibit short and abnormal molar roots and severely deformed incisors. The objective of this study is to address the mechanisms responsible for these changes using morphological, IHC, and RT-PCR analysis. Nfic-deficient mice exhibited aberrant odontoblasts and abnormal dentin formation in molar roots and the labial crown analog of incisors. The most striking changes observed in these aberrant odontoblasts were the loss of intercellular junctions and the decreased expression of ZO-1 and occludin. As a result, they became dissociated, had a round shape, and lost their cellular polarity and arrangement as a sheet of cells. Furthermore, the dissociated odontoblasts became trapped in dentin-like mineralized tissue, resembling osteodentin in the overall morphology. These findings suggest that loss of the Nfic gene interferes with the formation of intercellular junctions that causes aberrant odontoblast differentiation and abnormal dentin formation. Collectively, these changes in odontoblasts contributed to development of molars with short and abnormal roots in Nfic-deficient mice. (J Histochem Cytochem 57:469-476, 2009)
ISSN
0022-1554
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/81909
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1369/jhc.2009.952622
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