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Homotrimetric collagen .
Type X structural homology to type
VII,but not shown to produce a sheet
structure.
Secreted by hepertrophic chondrocytes
Associated with endocondral bone
formayion.
Function is not known
Suggested that it might influence the
remodelling of cartillage prior to
Miscellaneous collagen
Type XII
No well define function and
stochiometry.
Alpha chains consist of 3 collgenous and
4 noncollagenous domains.
Collagen in periodontium and tooth
structure
gingiva
In healthy gingiva,collagens accounts
approximately three fifth of total protein.
Collagen type I forms the bulk of lamina propia and
provides the tensile strength to the gingival tissue.
Type I and Type III has less proline and
hydroxyproline and more lysine and hydrolysine
than skin type I collagen
Type IV-(Argyrophilic Reticulum Fiber) is locted on
basement membrane.
Periodontal ligament
Reticular fibers are composed of Type III collagen& accounts for about 20% of
pdl collagen.
Type IV is associated with major binded collagen fibers but may play
role in maintaning elasticity and integrity of extracellular
matrix,Found in basal lamina.
Type IV and type VII are associated with epithelial cell rests and
blood vessels.
Fibrils
Fibers
Bundle
Collagen crimping
Diament demonstrated that collagenous tissues
exhibit a quantifiable periodicity of structure of
variable scale and this wave for that describes
this periodicity has been referred to
as a crimp.
Fibroblast processes in the developing
collagenous tissues play a role in fabricating
the crimpedarrangement and consequently that
crimping may be an important feature in tooth
eruption.
In polarizing microscope,
crimping can be recognized
by a regular banding of dark
lines across a
collagenous bundle
observed when its axis lies
perpendicula to the
polarizer directions.
Crimping may be due not only to a sharp
zig-zag arrangement of collagen fibrils,
but also to the micro anatomical
organization of collagenous sheets and
bundles.
COLLAGEN TURNOVER IN THE PERIODONTAL
LIGAMENT
phagolysosome
Electron dense zone suggesting that enzyme