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  • Title: Correlated alkaline phosphatase histochemistry and quantitative backscattered electron imaging in the study of rat incisor ameloblasts and enamel mineralization.
    Author: Gomez S, Boyde A.
    Journal: Microsc Res Tech; 1994 Sep 01; 29(1):29-36. PubMed ID: 8000082.
    Abstract:
    The different functional conditions of pre-ameloblasts, secretory ameloblasts, and maturation ameloblasts in 9 day rat incisors were recognized using high resolution light microscopic alkaline phosphatase histochemistry: Digital backscattered electron imaging was performed using the block surfaces from which thin sections were taken for histochemical study. It was possible to correlate exact locations in histochemical sections with positions in the block face at all stages of enamel mineralization from early secretion through late maturation. The first steep increase in the rate of mineralization of completed enamel matrix occurs after the first transition from smooth ended ameloblasts to ruffle ended ameloblasts. In the 9 day rat incisors used for this purpose, there are only two smooth to ruffle cyclical transitions, and the width of successional smooth ended bands of ameloblasts in the maturation cycling process is always narrow. Nevertheless, there seems to be a good correlation between mineralization increase and the acquisition of the high alkaline phosphatase activity in the deeply enfolded distal cytoplasm of the ruffle-ended maturation stage ameloblasts.
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