Patterns of Mineralization in Vitro

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Journal Cell Tissue Res

Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Cell Biology

Date 1991 Mar 1

PMID 1878934

Citations 12

Authors

B Zimmermann

H C Wachtel

C Noppe

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Abstract

Various patterns of mineralization are found in the organism during fetal and postnatal development. Different findings and theories have been published in the literature with regard to the mechanisms of mineralization, many of which are controversely discussed. In the present study the different patterns of mineralization observed in the organoid culture system of fetal rat calvarial cells were investigated by electron microscopy. In organoid culture, calvarial cells grow and differentiate at high density, and deposition of osteoid and mineralization of the matrix occur to a very high extent. Different types of mineralization could be observed more or less simultaneously. It was found that hydroxyapatite crystals were formed at collagen fibrils as well as in the interfibrillar space. Mineralization was frequently seen in necrotic cells and cellular remnants as well as in extra- and intracellular vesicles. Addition of bone or dentin matrices or the artificial hydroxyapatite Interpore 200 to the cells caused an increased mineralization in the vicinity and on the surface of the matrices with and without participation of collagen. On previously formed mineralized nodules, an apposition of mineralizing material appeared due to matrix secretion by osteoblasts. It is concluded that initiation of mineralization occurs--at least in vitro--at every nucleation point under appropriate conditions. These mineralization foci enlarge by further apposition as well as by cellular secretion of a mineralizing matrix. Furthermore, cell necroses may liberate mineralizable vesicles. All these patterns of mineralization are the result of different activities of one cell type.

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