Article
The effect of centrifugal force on the transcription levels of collagen type I and collagenase in cultured canine gingival fibroblasts.
Archives of oral biology - 1 Apr 1998
Redlich M, Palmon A, Zaks B, Geremi E, Rayzman S, Shoshan S
Abstract excerpt
An orthodontically treated tooth is often destabilized in its newly corrected location and relapses towards its original position. Hitherto, the explanation for this phenomenon was that orthodontic force brings about "stretching" of gingival collagen fiber, which "pull back" the tooth towards its...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Centrifugation
- Collagen
- Collagenases
- Dogs
- Fibroblasts
- Gingiva
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Pressure
- RNA
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transcription, Genetic
