title: Transcription and translation of CSF-1 in the dental follicle.
abstract: The dental follicle, a loose connective tissue sac which surrounds the unerupted tooth, is required for eruption to occur. Injection of colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) will accelerate molar eruption in rats, as well as stimulate tooth eruption in osteopetrotic rats. Utilizing in situ hybridization and reverse- transcription polymerase chain-reaction techniques, we show here that CSF-1 mRNA is present in vivo in the dental follicle of the first mandibular molar of the rat. Analysis of the molars from day 0 through day 10 post-natally demonstrates that the maximal expression of CSF-1 mRNA is at day 3 post-natally. Immunostaining also reveals that the CSF-1 mRNA is translated, with immunostaining for the CSF-1 itself, being heavy in early post-natal days and absent by day 9 postnatally. In view of the fact that there is a maximal influx of mononuclear cells (monocytes) into the dental follicle at day 3 post-natally--an influx which increases the numbers of osteoclasts needed to form a tooth eruption pathway--it is probable that the maximal expression of CSF-1 mRNA by day 3 post-natally contributes to this monocyte influx. Thus, this study establishes a relationship among a molecule (CSF-1), cell (monocyte), and tissue (dental follicle) that appear to play a major role in tooth eruption.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803-8408, USA.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D017931:DNA Primers; D003795:Dental Sac / Q000737:chemistry*; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014078:Tooth Eruption; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor