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Bone resorption deficiency affects tooth root development in RANKL mutant mice due to attenuated IGF-1 signaling in radicular odontoblasts.
Bone - 1 Sept 2018
Huang Hong, Wang Jue, Zhang Yan, Zhu Guochun, Li Yi-Ping, Ping Ji, Chen Wei
Abstract excerpt
The tooth root is essential for normal tooth physiological function. Studies on mice with mutations or targeted gene deletions revealed that osteoclasts (OCs) play an important role in tooth root development. However, knowledge on the cellular and molecular mechanism underlying how OCs mediate root formation is limited. During bone formation, growth factors (e.g. Insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF-1) liberated...
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