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Published on: June 9, 2018
Distribution of tenascin-c and -X in rat TMJ development
Iwao Sato1, Ryuji Ueno, Akiko Mikami
1Department of Anatomy, School of Dentistry at Tokyo, The Nippon Dental University, Tokyo Japan. iwaoa1@tokyo.ndu.ac.jp
Abstract:
In the neonatal and postnatal development of rat TMJ, tenascin-C and -X were detected in the muscle, bone matrix, connective tissue around the bone, and blood vessel of rats at E18 (18-days old embryo), 0-, and 5-days postnatal. The reaction of tenascin-X was also found in the connective tissue around the mandibular condyle. The mRNA of tenascin-C (600 bp) and -X (588 bp) was also detected in the developmental muscle with the level of tenascin-C mRNA moderately decreased during development. Therefore, tenascin-C and -X may have different effects on the connective tissue during development of TMJ.
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