title: Presence of matrix vesicles in the body of odontoblasts and in the inner third of dentinal tissue: a scanning electron microscopic study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this report is to present the results of a scanning electron microscopic study on the presence of matrix vesicles (MVs) found in human dentine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dentin tissue from 20 human bicuspids was analyzed by means of scanning electron microscopy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  MVs were found as outgrowths of the cellular membrane of the odontoblastic body, the more proximal portion of the odontoblastic process before entering the dentinal tubule and in the odontoblastic process within the inner third of the dentin. Size of MVs varied depending on location. In the inner third of dentin, they were seen in diverse positions; as membranal outgrowths, deriving from the odontoblastic process, lying free in the intratubular space and attached to the dentinal wall. Sometimes, they were seen organized forming groups of different sizes and shapes or as multivesicular chains running from the surface of the odontoblastic process to the tubular wall. MVs were present in places never considered: 1) the body of odontoblasts; 2) the most proximal part of the odontoblastic processes before entering the circumpulpal dentine and also: 3) in the inner third of dentinal tissue.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to our results, MVs not only participate during mantle dentin mineralization during early dentinogenesis, they also contribute during the mineralization process of the inner dentin.
authors: Clinical Oral Pathology Laboratory, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 04510, DF, México.
authors: Maricela
authors: M
authors: Garcés-Ortíz
authors: Constantino
authors: C
authors: Ledesma-Montes
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Reyes-Gasga
mesh_terms: D022162:Cytoplasmic Vesicles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003804:Dentin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D064347:Microscopy, Electrochemical, Scanning; D009804:Odontoblasts / Q000648:ultrastructure*
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