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Histochemical identification of myosinlike substance in cells of the human dental pulp.

In this study of the human dental pulp, substances were found in smooth muscle cells, myoendothelial cells, fibroblasts, and odontoblastic processes that demonstrate staining and extraction characteristics identical to myosin in muscle. It is concluded that the myosinlike material similar to that found in cells elsewhere in the human also occurs in cells of the dental pulp.

Dental Pulp

[Allergies and dental pulp (author's transl)].

A review of the articles dealing with allergy in the dental pulp is oppered. The dental pulp--furthermore when inflamed--showes antigens, lymphocyetes and plasmocytes, antibodies (IgG, IgA and IgE), mast-cells, histamine and possibly C3. However an hypersensitivity or allergy of immediate type elicited by circulating antibodies has never been demonstrated. In another way, two types of allergies of cellular type have been described in the dental pulp: graft rejection and contact hypersensitivity. Autoimmunity has also just been described.

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Effects of local anesthetics on the respiratory activity in vitro of cells in the dental pulp.

The respiratory activity of isolated dental pulps from rat incisors was studied using a Gilson respirometer. The activity was compared with activities after administration of varying concentrations of commercial standard solutions of lidocaine with and without adrenaline and prilocaine with felypressin. Above a 2.5% concentration of the standard solution added to the respiratory medium a significant inhibition was registered.

Anesthetics, Local

Autoradiographic study of 3-h-proline incorporation by rat periodontal ligament, gingival connective tissue and dental pulp.

The rates of 3-H-proline incorporation by the rat periodontal ligament, the gingival connective tissue and the dental pulp were studied by autoradiography. The rate of 3-H-proline incorporation by the periodontal ligament was 2.8 times higher than by the gingival connective tissue and 5 times higher than by the dental pulp. These differences were significant (p smaller than 0.01). The pattern of 3-H-proline incorporation by the periodontal ligament was significantly different (p smaller than 0.01) from that by the gingival connective tissue and the dental pulp. The latter two tissues exhibited a similar pattern of 3-H-proline incorporation. The ratio of the rates of 3-H-proline incorporation by the three tissues did not correlate with the ratio of the cellular densities in the same three tissues.

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Allergies of the dental pulp.

A review of publications relating to the allergies of the dental pulp is presented. The pulp--especially when inflamed--contains antigens, lymphocytes, plasmocytes, IgG, IgM, IgA, and IgE antibodies, mast cells, histamine, and possibly C3. However, no antibody-mediated allergy (hypersensitivity) of the pulp has yet been demonstrated. On the other hand, two types of cell-mediated allergy--the graft-rejection reaction and contact hypersensitivity--have been reported, as well as autoimmunity.

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Relation of body mass to oxygen consumption rate in dental pulp.

Oxygen consumption rates of dentinogenically active dental pulp at 38 C have been determined for 13 different species of mammals ranging from 18.6 gm to 800 kg in mean body mass. The QO2 is inversely related to body mass. The influence of body mass on the oxygen consumption rate seems to be about ten times greater in animals weighing less than 18 kg than it is in larger animals.

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The clinical and histological evaluation of cresatin with calcium hydroxide on the human dental pulp.

Metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide in a methylcellulose base produces clinically and radiographically successful pulpotomies, when performed on sound primary teeth. Under sterile conditions, with proper surgical and restorative technique, pulp tissue will heal with metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide-methylcellulose. The dental pulp will form on osteodentin bridge and the pulp adjoining the bridge will remain histologically viable and free of inflammation. Methylcellulose with sterile distilled water does not produce as favorable a histological reaction as metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide-methylcellulose. No dentinal bridging was in evidence and there were present in the radicular pulp varying degrees of inflammation.

Calcium Hydroxide

[Role of dental pulp in the histogenesis of the enamel organ].

The histological study of in vitro cultured associations between dental pulps and outer dental epithelium showed that the predontoblasts initiated the histogenesis of the enamel organ and particularly the differentiation of the inner dental epithelium.

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Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isoenzyme pattern in normal and inflamed human dental pulp.

Enzyme variants may serve an adaptive role in providing the correct vectorial properties for the metabolism of a tissue, or broadening its environmental tolerance range. To determine if the LDH isoenzyme pattern of human dental pulp changes during inflammation, supernatants from normal and inflamed dental pulp homogenates were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Inflamed pulps had a higher M subunit content and a markedly increased enzyme activity. These results might reflect adaptive changes at the enzyme level associated with a partial shift towards anaerobic metabolism during inflammation of the pulp.

Adult

Effect of bacterial products on inflammatory reactions in the dental pulp.

Culture filtrates (extracellular components) and material obtained from disintegrated cells (intracellular components) of cultured plaque bacteria were studied for their capacity to induce inflammatory reactions in the dental pulp. Class V cavities were prepared on the buccal surface of 94 teeth: 42 test and 52 control teeth in six adult monkeys. lyophilized bacterial components were sealed into the test cavities either alone or following an 8-h topical application of a solution of the same components in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). Culture medium and PBS were applied in two sets of control cavities. A third set was restored with zinc oxide-eugenol cement. The animals were killed 32 h after the initiation of the experiment and the pulps were examined histologically. Teeth treated trophil leukocytes in the area of the pulp subjacent to the cut dentin tubules. Abscess formation was frequently found. The severe reactions which developed were independent of differences between individual animals and differences in thickness of the remaining dentin. The controls showed damage to the odontoblasts but little or no neutrophil infiltration. The findings confirm that products of bacteria applied to exposed dentin initiate inflammatory reactions in the dental pulp.

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The turnover of collagen in the dental pulp of rat incisors.

The turnover of collagen in the dental pulp was studied using H3-proline and microchemical techniques. The incorporation of label into the whole tissue was very high, with most of the label being incorporated into the noncollagenous substances. The rate of disappearance of label from collagen approximated the disappearance of label from noncollagenous components, suggesting that the whole pulp was undergoing rapid remodeling. There seems to be more than one metabolic pool of collagen.

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