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    Apoptosis in the early involuting stellate reticulum of rat molar tooth germs
    (Springer, 1999-07-01) Baratella, L.; Arana-Chavez, V. E.; Katchburian, E.; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Universidade de São Paulo (USP); Univ Ponta Grossa
    When the enamel organ of the rat tooth germ is fully developed at the tip of the prospective cusp, amelogenesis begins, and at this site the overlaying stellate reticulum begins its involution. During the involution process, there is a gradual decrease in intercellular spaces, invasion by blood vessels, appearance of macrophage-like cells and reduction in the number of stellate reticulum cells. Since reduction or disappearance of cells during embryonic development in organs and tissues has been shown to occur by apoptosis, we decided to examine early involuting regions of the stellate reticulum in the hope of detecting apoptosis. for this purpose, upper first molars of Wistar newborn rats aged 1 and 3 days were fixed in formaldehyde for the TUNEL method and in glutaraldehyde-formaldehyde for light and electron microscopy. Paraffin sections revealed TUNEL-positive structures, i.e. brown-yellow-stained bodies, in the central portion of the stellate reticulum, and next to the outer enamel epithelium and stratum intermedium. Examination of ultrathin sections confirmed the TUNEL findings: some stellate reticulum cells showed nuclei containing crescent-like electron-opaque condensed masses of peripheral chromatin, typical of apoptosis. Also, apoptotic bodies of various sizes and appearances were frequently observed within stellate reticulum cells. We should like to suggest that apoptosis is associated with the reduction in the number of cells during regression of the reticulum.
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    Light microscopy and computer three-dimensional reconstruction of the blood capillaries of the enamel organ of rat molar tooth germs
    (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004-03-01) Cerri, Paulo Sergio; Faria, Flavio Paulo de; Villa, Ricardo Gazoni [UNIFESP]; Katchburian, Eduardo [UNIFESP]; UNESP; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    We performed a light microscope and a computer three-dimensional reconstruction study of serial sections of the molar enamel organ of 3- and 5-day-old rats perfused with Indian ink through the arterial system. the tooth germs were fixed in Bouin's solution, embedded in paraffin, sectioned and stained with haematoxylin and eosin. for the three-dimensional reconstruction, light micrographs of the serial sections were digitized, and aligned using the serial EM Align software downloaded from http://synapses.bu.edu/tools/. After alignment, the boundaries of the India-ink-filled blood vessels were manually traced with a mouse using the software IGL trace (version 1.26b), also downloaded from the above website. After tracing, a three-dimensional representation of the blood vessel contours was generated in a VRML format and visualized with the help of the software Cortona Web3D viewer (version 4.0) downloaded from http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona. Our results showed that in regions where ameloblasts are polarized the capillaries are arranged in three distinct levels: (1) penetrating and leaving capillaries in relation to the outer enamel epithelium; (2) capillaries crossing and branching inside the stellate reticulum; and (3) capillaries branching and anastomosing profusely within the stratum intermedium, thereby forming an extensive capillary plexus intimately associated with the cells of the stratum intermedium. the existence of a conspicuous capillary plexus intermingled with cells of the stratum intermedium, as shown in our results, suggests that some molecules produced by cells of the stratum intermedium could be released into the capillary plexus and thereafter carried to the dental follicle.
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    Structural features of forming and developing blood capillaries of the enamel organ of rat molar tooth germs observed by light and electron microscopy
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005-09-01) Manzke, E.; Katchburian, E.; Faria, F. P.; Freymuller, E.; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Univ Vale Itajai
    The process of vascularization of the enamel organ, a unique epithelial structure, occurs when the tooth germ is fully developed, i.e., at the onset of dentinogenesis. Although the three-dimensional organization of the capillaries has been previously investigated, the structural features underlying the formation of the new capillaries remains poorly understood. Thus, in the hope of better understanding the mechanism of formation of the stellate reticulum capillaries, upper first molar tooth germs of newborn and 3-day-old rats were fixed in glutaraldehyde-formaldehyde and processed for light and electron microscopy. Our results showed that blood capillaries are initially in close proximity to the outer enamel epithelium. Between and intercalated with the capillaries are round/ovoid clusters of cells, some of which are vacuolated, closely apposed to the outer enamel epithelium. the outer enamel epithelium is not a continuous layer, but exhibits gaps between the cells. This suggests that the capillaries penetrate the enamel organ through these gaps, since no invagination of the epithelium was observed. the presence of a cluster of cells containing vacuoles suggests that vasculogenesis is taking place. Images showing loss of the basal lamina, proliferation of endothelial cells, presence of filopodia and lateral sprouting suggests that angiogenesis is also occurring. Thus, neoformation of capillaries of the molar enamel organ of rat seems to occur simultaneously by mechanisms of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.