The protective effect of caseinomacropeptide against dental erosion using hydroxyapatite as a model system

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 652-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Setarehnejad ◽  
Ara Kanekanian ◽  
Arthur Tatham ◽  
Amir H. Abedi
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eda Arat Maden ◽  
Özge Acar ◽  
Ceyhan Altun ◽  
Günseli Güven Polat

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of acidulated phosphate fluoride (APF) gel and casein phosphopeptide/amorphous calciumphosphate (CPP-ACP) on the dental erosion produced by carbonated soft drink in primary teeth. Study Design: This study evaluated by an in vitro model the effect of APF gel and CPP-ACP on the dental enamel previously subjected to erosive challenge with carbonated soft drink. Sixty sound human primary molars were prepared by embedding the crown sections in acrylic resin blocks leaving the enamel surfaces exposed. The surface roughness of the enamel was measured with prophilometry at baseline. Specimens were randomly divided into three treatment groups (n:20): artificial saliva, CPP-ACP, 1.23% APF gel. All specimens were then exposed to an erosive challenge of carbonated soft drink and artificial saliva for 20 cycles of 20 seconds each. Demineralization-remineralization cycles was repeated twice at eight-hour intervals and roughness values were measured. Enamel samples were treated with artificial saliva, CPP-ACP, 1.23% APF gel applied for 10 min after erosive challenge. The arithmetic average roughness (Ra) readings were recorded after remineralization agents were applied. Results: The mean surface roughness in all groups increased significantly after erosion process and decreased after remineralization treatment. After treatment, the mean surface roughness of the 1.23% APF gel group was significantly less than the other groups and the mean surface roughness of the artificial saliva group was significantly more than the other groups. 1.23% APF gel showed the highest protective effect against erosive enamel loss. Conclusions: Under the conditions of this study, artificial saliva, CPP-ACP and 1.23% APF treatments were able to reduce erosive enamel loss produced by carbonated soft drink in primary teeth. However, 1.23% APF gel showed the highest protective effect against erosive enamel loss.


2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 828-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guddadarangavvanahally K. Jayaprakasha ◽  
Bhabani S. Jena ◽  
Pradeep S. Negi ◽  
Kunnumpurath K. Sakariah

Curcumin removed turmeric oleoresin (CRTO) was extracted with hexane and concentrated to get turmeric oil, and that was fractionated using silica gel column chromatography to obtain three fractions. These fractions were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Turmeric oil contained aromatic turmerone (31.32%), turmerone (15.08%) and curlone (9.7%), whereas fractions III has aromatic turmerone (44.5%), curlone (19.22%) and turmerone (10.88%) as major compounds. Also, oxygenated compounds (5,6,8-10) were enriched in fraction III. Turmeric oil and its fractions were tested for antioxidant activity using the β-carotene-linoleate model system and the phosphomolybdenum method. The fraction III showed maximum antioxidant capacity. These fractions were also used to determine their protective effect against the mutagenicity of sodium azide by means of the Ames test. All the fractions and turmeric oil exhibited a markedly antimutagenicity but fraction III was the most effective. The antioxidant effects of turmeric oil and its fractions may provide an explanation for their antimutagenic action.


2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (7) ◽  
pp. 612-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.T. Hara ◽  
M. Ando ◽  
C. González-Cabezas ◽  
J.A. Cury ◽  
M.C. Serra ◽  
...  

The acquired dental pellicle helps prevent erosion, but the protection level is unknown. This in situ study tested whether a two-hour pellicle protects against different erosive challenges by orange juice. Subjects wore palatal appliances loaded with either enamel or dentin specimens. Pellicle was allowed to form, or not (control), on the surfaces of the specimens intra-orally for 2 hrs before the erosive challenges of 0 (control), 10, 20, and 30 minutes’ duration. Specimens were randomly removed from the appliances after each challenge. Percentage of surface microhardness change (%SMC) was determined for the enamel specimens, and that of mineral loss and lesion depth for the dentin specimens. Enamel specimens with the pellicle showed a significantly lower %SMC, only after the 10-minute challenge. No protection was found for dentin. It was concluded that the acquired pellicle reduced dental erosion, but that this effect was limited to the less severe erosive challenge on enamel surfaces.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelon Cristina Souza Pinto ◽  
Suellen Nogueira Linares Lima ◽  
Maria Vitoria Nassif ◽  
Christian Zakian ◽  
Hooi Pin Chew ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Clinical assessment and monitoring of dental erosion in vivo is challenging, although a number of clinical indices have been proposed but these are unlikely to be sensitive enough to quantify erosion with sufficient sensitivity to allow comparison of different therapies. In this respect, some of the techniques predominantly employed for the assessment of dental caries such as Quantitative light- induced fluorescence (QLF) and Optical coherence tomography (OCT) may also have utility for the assessment for erosion both in vivo and in vitro. The aim of the present study was to test three techniques (QLF, OCT and SMH) for the assessment of dentine erosion in a product testing model, using dentifrices to reduce erosion susceptibility. Dentine erosion was evaluated comparing the methods. Methods: Human dentine specimens were treated with one of two dentifrice slurries or mineral water (control group), followed by an erosive challenge and storage overnight in artificial saliva. These procedures were performed over 5 days. The following two dentifrices were tested: Duraphat™ 5000 (5000ppm Sodium Fluoride) and Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief™ (8% arginine plus calcium carbonate and 1450ppm Fluoride). All groups showed a progressivedecrease in SMH and increase in scattering for OCT (P<0.05) indicating mineral loss. Results: The two dentifrice groups demonstrated significantly less softening than the control group (P<0.05). No statistically significantdifferences were detected for dentine erosion using QLF (P>0.05). Conclusion: SMH and OCT techniques were able to detect a significant protective effect against in vitro erosion whensamples were pre-treated with either dentifrice formulation. Dentifrices containing high concentrations of fluoride andarginine associated with calcium carbonate and fluoride have a protective effect against dentinal erosion.


Author(s):  
D. C. Williams ◽  
D. E. Outka

Many studies have shown that the Golgi apparatus is involved in a variety of synthetic activities, and probably no Golgi product is more elaborate than the scales produced by various kinds of phytoflagellates. The formation of calcified scales (coccoliths, Fig. 1,2) of the coccolithophorid phytoflagellates provides a particularly interesting model system for the study of biological mineralization, and the sequential formation of Golgi products.The coccoliths of Hymenomonas carterae consist of a scale-like base (Fig. 2 and 4, b) with a highly structured calcified (CaCO3) rim composed of two distinct elements which alternate about the base periphery (Fig. 1 and 3, A, B). Each element is enveloped by a sheath-like organic matrix (Fig. 3; Fig. 4, m).


Author(s):  
Masako Osumi ◽  
Misuzu Nagano ◽  
Hiroko Kazama

We have found that microbodies appeared profusely together with a remarkable increase in catalase activity in normal alkane-grown cells of hydrocarbon-utilizing Candida yeasts, and that the microbodies multiplied by division in these cells. These features of Candida yeasts seem to provide a useful model system for studies on the biogenesis of the microbody. Subsequently, we have succeeded in isolation of Candida microbodies in an apparently native state, as judged biochemically and morphologically. The presence of DNA in the purified microbody fraction thus obtained was proved by the diphenylamine method. DNA molecule of about 15 urn in contour length was released from an isolated microbody. The physicochemical analyses of the microbody DNA revealed that its buoyant density differed from nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs. All these results lead us to the possibility that there is a novel type of DNA in microbodies.


Author(s):  
M.J. Witcomb ◽  
U. Dahmen ◽  
K.H. Westmacott

Cu-Cr age-hardening alloys are of interest as a model system for the investigation of fcc/bcc interface structures. Several past studies have investigated the morphology and interface structure of Cr precipitates in a Cu matrix (1-3) and good success has been achieved in understanding the crystallography and strain contrast of small needle-shaped precipitates. The present study investigates the effect of small amounts of phosphorous on the precipitation behavior of Cu-Cr alloys.The same Cu-0.3% Cr alloy as was used in earlier work was rolled to a thickness of 150 μm, solution treated in vacuum at 1050°C for 1h followed by quenching and annealing for various times at 820 and 863°C.Two laths and their corresponding diffraction patterns in an alloy aged 2h at 820°C are shown in correct relative orientation in Fig. 1. To within the limit of accuracy of the diffraction patterns the orientation relationship was that of Kurdjumov-Sachs (KS), i.e. parallel close-packed planes and directions.


Author(s):  
V.J. Montpetit ◽  
S. Dancea ◽  
L. Tryphonas ◽  
D.F. Clapin

Very large doses of pyridoxine (vitamin B6) are neurotoxic in humans, selectively affecting the peripheral sensory nerves. We have undertaken a study of the morphological and biochemical aspects of pyridoxine neurotoxicity in an animal model system. Early morphological changes in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) associated with pyridoxine megadoses include proliferation of neurofilaments, ribosomes, rough endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi complexes. We present in this report evidence of the formation of unique aggregates of microtubules and membranes in the proximal processes of DRG which are induced by high levels of pyridoxine.


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