THE TEETH OF ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS DAUD
II. DEVELOPMENT OF DENTIN
THORVALD KVAM D.D.S., PH.D.1
1 Biological Station of the University of Oslo, Drøbak, Norway
The organic foundation of the outermost dentin layer in Alligator mississippiensis Daud is formed with participation of precollagenous argyrophilic fibers which are transformed to collagenous fibers. The rest of the organic dentinal matrix originates by transformation of the cytoplasm of the dentinoblasts, the fibroglia fibers of the cytoplasm being converted to collagenous fibers and giving rise to the fiber system of the dentin, the rest of the cytoplasm filling the dentinal tubules.
Submitted on November 7, 1957
