Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
9-13-2010
Publisher
PAGEPress Publications
Source Publication
European Journal of Histochemistry
Source ISSN
1121-760X
Abstract
To evaluate the apoptosis involvement in the angiogenesis as a self-limiting process in patients with temporomandibular joint (TMJ) degenerated disc vessels, we assessed, by immunohistochemistry, the detection of TRAIL, its death receptor DR5 and caspase 3. TRAIL, its death receptor DR5 and caspase 3 expression were studied by immunohistochemistry in 15 TMJ discs displaced without reduction and in 4 unaffected discs. These apoptosis molecules were detected in the intima and media layers of newly formed vessels affected discs. In conclusion, vessels apoptosis activation in TMJ disc with ID could be regarded as a self-limiting process that try to leads to vessel regression; in this way an inhibition of angiogenic vessels may prove a key strategy in limiting pathological angiogenesis, by cutting off blood supply to tumors, or by reducing harmful inflammation.
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Recommended Citation
Loreto, Carla; Almeida, Luis Eduardo; Migliore, M. R.; Caltabiano, M.; and Leonardi, Rosalia, "TRAIL, DR5 and Caspase 3-dependent Apoptosis in Vessels of Diseased Human Temporomandibular Joint Disc. An Immunohistochemical Study" (2010). School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications. 339.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/dentistry_fac/339
Comments
Published version. European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 54, No. 3, e40 (2010): 175-179. DOI: © 2010 Copyright C. Loreto et al., Used with permission.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0).
Luis Eduardo Almeida was affiliated with Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil at the time of publication.