oxytalan

[ok-sit´ah-lan]

a connective tissue fiber found in the periodontal membrane.

ox·yt·a·lan

(ok-sit'ă-lan),

A type of connective tissue fiber representing an early stage in the formation of elastin fibers and found throughout the body, particularly in the periodontal ligament and gingivae.

[G. oxys, acid, + talas, suffering, resisting; coined term probably intended to mean "resistant to acid hydrolysis"]

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ox·y·ta·lan

(ok-sit'ă-lan)

A type of connective tissue fiber found in the periodontal ligaments of a number of animals having the same ultrastructural features as immature elastin, i.e., microfilaments without the elastin.

[G. oxys, acid, + talas, suffering, resisting; coined term probably intended to mean "resistant to acid hydrolysis"]

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Our study involved 8 clinically diagnosed patients who all showed major disarray of skin elastic networks with rarefaction and destruction of oxytalan and elaunin fibers with scarcity of mature elastic fibers [Dridi et al., 1999; Ghomrasseni, 2001].

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The evidence for its odontogenic origin is circumstantial, being based partly on the demonstration of oxytalan fibers within its calcified structures and its exclusive occurrence on gingiva.