Collagen-rich odontogenic tissue characteristic of teeth and tooth-like skeletal elements (e.g., odontodes); mature dentine is mineralized and develops from predentine tissue; often (but not always) tubular and acellular. [ VSAO:0000069 PSPUB:0000170 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 ]
Synonyms: dentine of tooth dentin
Term information
- MESH:D003804
- EMAPA:35281
- ZFA:0005143
- BTO:0003453
- UMLS:C0011429 (ncithesaurus:Dentin)
- SCTID:362112004
- GAID:1272
- NCIT:C32453
- TAO:0005143
- MA:0002542
- FMA:55628
- XAO:0004051
- VSAO:0000069
- VHOG:0001589
- Wikipedia:Dentin
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Dentine is a bona fide vertebrate novelty, and dentine-secreting odontoblasts represent a cell type that is exclusively derived from the neural crest.[well established][VHOG]
Dentine is found in the fossil record as early as the late Cambrian, in fish, where it may have had a role in electrochemical sensing of the environment as well as assisting in defense[WP]
Term relations
- odontoid tissue
- mineralized skeletal tissue
- transformation of some pre-dentine
- only in taxon some Vertebrata