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- Title
A model of periodontitis in the rat: effect of lipopolysaccharide on bone resorption, osteoclast activity, and local peptidergic innervation.
- Authors
Dumitrescu, Alexandrina L.; El-Aleem, Seham Abd; Morales-Aza, Begonia; Donaldson, Lucy F.
- Abstract
Dumitrescu AL, Abd El-Aleem S, Morales-Aza B, Donaldson LF: A model of periodontitis in the rat: effect of lipopolysaccharide on bone resorption, osteoclast activity, and local peptidergic innervation. J Clin Periodontol 2004 doi: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2004.00528.x.© Blackwell Munksgaard, 2004. To establish and characterise a rat model of periodontitis that reiterates the features of human disease. Periodontal inflammation was induced by a single injection of 10 μg liposaccharide (LPS) ( Salmonella typhimurium) in 1 μl saline into rat mandibular gingiva at the buccomesial aspect of the second molar. Animals were killed after 3, 7 and 10 days, mandibles dissected and sectioned for histological and immunocytochemical analysis. LPS injection resulted in a significant gingival and periodontal inflammation with inflammatory infiltrate, apical migration of the junctional epithelium, interdental bone loss, and activation of osteoclasts at the site of injection 7 and 10 days after injection. At 10 days post injection, there was a significant trend for bone loss on both sides of the mandible. Periodontal inflammation was associated with alteration in the levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity in nerve terminals innervating the inflamed gingival papilla. Intragingival injection of LPS in the rat provides an easily induced reproducible experimental model of periodontal inflammation that reiterates features of human disease.
- Subjects
PERIODONTITIS; BONE resorption; CALCITONIN gene-related peptide; ENDOTOXINS; OSTEOCLASTS; PERIODONTICS
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 8, p596
- ISSN
0303-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-051X.2004.00528.x