An electron-microscopic observation on the collagen fibril arrangement in the outermost layer of dog dentine as revealed by tangential sections.
In the forming initial dentine, each odontoblast extended a thick process perpendicularly to the basal lamina, and the collagen fibrils formed were divided into two groups based on their orientation. One was a group of fibrils running parallel to an odontoblastic process to organize the peri-process fibril bundles to organize the inter-process fibril bundles. This pattern of fibril orientation was similar in both crown and root. The diameter of each collagen fibril ranged from 30-100 nm in the crown and from 30-180 nm in the root.
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D000818:Animals; D003094:Collagen; D003804:Dentin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004285:Dogs; D009804:Odontoblasts / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014083:Tooth Germ / Q000648:ultrastructure
D003094:Collagen