Dynamic Aspects of Dental Pulp

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Cells and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Innervation of teeth: developmental aspects

      • D. C. Johnsen

      Pages 3-28

   3. Odontoblasts: developmental aspects

      • J. V. Ruch

      Pages 29-50

   4. Dental pulp fibroblasts in culture

      • C. A. Shuttleworth

      Pages 51-67

   5. Concluding remarks

      • C. A. Shuttleworth

      Pages 69-70

3. Anatomical Aspects of the Pulp — Odontoblast and Vascular Architecture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Role of the odontoblast process

      • G. R. Holland

      Pages 73-95

   3. Change of vascular architecture of dental pulp with growth

      • Y. Kishi, K. Takahashi

      Pages 97-129

   4. Concluding remarks

      • K. Takahashi

      Pages 131-133

4. Physiological Aspects of the Pulp — Microcirculatory and Sensory Functions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Intradental sensory units

      • M. V. O. Närhi

      Pages 137-149

   3. Microcirculation: function and regulation in microvasculature

      • E. Okabe, K. Todoki, H. Ito

      Pages 151-166

   4. Haemodynamic regulation of the dental pulp

      • S. Kim, J. Dörscher-Kim

      Pages 167-188

   5. Interstitial fluid pressure and transmicrovascular fluid flow

      • K. J. Heyeraas

      Pages 189-198

   6. Concluding remarks

      • S. Kim

      Pages 199-200

5. Biochemical Aspects of the Pulp — Enzymes and Matrix

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Enzymes of the glycolytic pathway — phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase

      • N. Nakanishi, K. Ozawa, S. Yamada

      Pages 203-220

   3. Collagenase synthesis by odontoblast-like cells (RP cells) — preparation of monoclonal antibodies against RP cell collagenase and characterization of the enzyme

      • S. Sakamoto, Y. Bolender, M. Sakamoto

      Pages 221-237

   4. Dental pulp matrix — collagens and glycoproteins

      • C. A. Shuttleworth

      Pages 239-257

This book presents a circumspective overview and update of the present existing knowledge of the biology, chemistry and pathophysiology of the dental pulp. It details numerous observations of a group of highly specialized investigators who have united in the common purpose of presenting their observations for the benefit of clinicians, teachers, researchers and students. Fortunately, the dental literature presents abundant research findings about pulp biology and the pulp's responses to various stimuli. This abundance has resulted in an increased interest and expansion of research on this subject. For example, publications abound on the response of pulp tissue to various medications and to a variety of types of dental materials which may be placed near to or at some distance from the pulp through the medium of dentine. One of the reasons the pulp is of such interest is that it not only provides the vitality to the teeth but also produces the dentine - both the primary and secondary, as well as reparative. The latter-type dentine is a result of the pulp's functions in response to disease as the former dentine is in response to health. As an example, some investigators have reported the effects of cutting of dentine and the placement of restorations in dentine which in turn reflect changes on the pulp tissue. These reports have raised a number of questions, which in turn have created a need for answers.

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• circulation
• development
• growth
• health
• inflammation
• metabolism
• neuropeptides
• neurotransmitter
• pathophysiology
• physiology
• protein
• proteins
• regulation
• tissue

• Osaka University Faculty of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan

  Reizo Inoki

• Department of Pharmacology, Osaka University Faculty of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan

  Teruo Kudo

• Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, University of Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

  Leif M. Olgart

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