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Tooth induction in chick epithelium: expression of quiescent genes for enamel synthesis
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 29, 1980
Abstract:
Intraocular grafts of chick epithelium combined with mouse molar mesenchyme produced a variety of dental structures including perfectly formed crowns with differentiated ameloblasts depositing enamel matrix. The results suggest that the loss of teeth in Aves did not result from a loss of genetic coding for enamel synthesis in the oral epithelium but from an alteration in the tissue interactions requisite for odontogenesis.