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Neuroendocrine cells were identified in human dental pulp by immunohistochemical method using monoclonal antibodies. A population of neuroendocrine cells positively reacting to neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, chromogranin A, and stained with paraldehyde-fuchsin, was detected in the subodontoblastic layer of the pulp. Changes in their count, morphology, and function in caries and pulpitis concomitant with periodontitis were proven.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 144, No. 9, pp. 320–323, September, 2007
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Moskovskii, A.V. Neuroendocrine cells in the dental pulp in health and disease. Bull Exp Biol Med 144, 342–344 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-007-0328-z
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