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dental pulp

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The part in the center of a tooth made up of living soft tissue and cells called odontoblasts[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_pulp ]

Term info

Label

dental pulp

Synonyms
  • pulp of tooth
  • tooth pulp
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Tooth_Section.svg

external definition

Material in the center of the dentine of the mature tooth. In secondary teeth the pulp contains blood vessels and odontoblast.[TAO]

has related synonym

dental pulp cell

homology notes

The oral cavity of vertebrates is generally thought to arise as an ectodermal invagination. Consistent with this, oral teeth are proposed to arise exclusively from ectoderm, contributing to tooth enamel epithelium, and from neural crest derived mesenchyme, contributing to dentin and pulp (reference 1); Teeth and tooth-like structures, together named odontodes, are repeated organs thought to share a common evolutionary origin. These structures can be found in gnathostomes at different locations along the body: oral teeth in the jaws, teeth and denticles in the oral-pharyngeal cavity, and dermal denticles on elasmobranch skin (reference 2).[uncertain][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0001754