Title |
Acellular cementum in the tooth (longitudinal segment of coronal half of root; human, adult) |
Creator |
Poels, Lambert G. |
Contributor |
Lambert G. Poels, PhD, UMC St Radboud Nijmegen Paul H. K. Jap, PhD, UMC St Radboud Nijmegen |
Subject |
oral cavity; acellular cementum; Sharpey's fibers; incremental lines |
Description |
Stain: Hematoxylin and eosin. From left to right: periodontal ligament with blood vessels; flattened cementoblasts followed by a thin seam of pink cementoid; darker stained acellular cementum, the so-called acellular extrinsic fiber cementum as collagen fibres protrude from the periodontal ligament into cementum; vertical course of incremental lines (of Salter) with densely aggregated, horizontally oriented Sharpey's fibers are present; note the absence of cementocytes; dense stained dentinocemental junction (outmost right); and dentin. |
Subtype |
Image |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ |
Collection |
Poja Histology Collection - Oral Cavity Subset |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6sj4nsv |
Setname |
ehsl_heal |
ID |
890265 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sj4nsv |