Variation in quantitative measures of enamel prisms from different species as assessed using confocal microscopy

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1053-1063

  Dumont, E R ^a  

^a Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; enamel prisms; prism size; prism spacing; quantitative variation; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMELOBLAST; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CELL SIZE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENAMEL; HISTOLOGY; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRISM; PROSIMIAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENTAL ENAMEL; GALAGO; INSECTIVORA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030294938     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9969(96)00056-8     Document Type: Article

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