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Antibody against Type I collagen was raised in rabbits and purified by immunoadsorption on Sepharose-conjugated Types I and III collagen. The cross-reactivity of purified antibody to Type III collagen was found to be less than 0.5% by passive haemagglutination and less than 1.5% by radioimmunoassay. When paraffin sections of fixed and decalcified pig molars were incubated with purified antibody to Type I collagen, varying degrees of staining were observed in the ligament, gingiva, bone and cementum. The periodontal ligament adjacent to bone was more widely stained than that adjacent to cementum in some regions, whereas in others, no difference in staining could be discerned between the two halves of the ligament. The lamina propria of gingiva was stained, and this appeared to be most intense in the vicinity of the overlying epithelium. The fibrous component in the endosteal spaces, the dentine and the extracellular coronal elements in the pulp were generally stained. The impression obtained from the staining pattern is that Type I collagen is not restricted to particular regions of the periodontal ligament or the lamina propria of the gingiva.
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Rao, L.G., Wang, H.M., Kalliecharan, R. et al. Specific immunohistochemical localization of Type I collagen in porcine periodontal tissues using the peroxidase-labelled antibody technique. Histochem J 11, 73–82 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01041266
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