Alimentary System

Tooth - Inflammation

    Narrative
    Tooth - Inflammation, Chronic active in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a chronic study. Cementum and dentin of the root are being resorbed because of chronic active inflammation (arrow).
    Tooth - Inflammation, Chronic active in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 1). Cementum and dentin of the root are being resorbed because of chronic active inflammation (arrow).
    Tooth - Inflammation, Chronic active in a male B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study. Chronic active inflammation of the tooth is present (arrow).
    Tooth - Inflammation in a male B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 3). Chronic active inflammation of the tooth is present.
    Tooth, Pulp - Inflammation, Suppurative in a male F344/N rat from a chronic study. Suppurative inflammation affects the majority of the tooth pulp.
    Tooth, Pulp - Inflammation, Suppurative in a male F344/N rat from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 5). There is suppurative inflammation of the pulp with colonies of bacteria (arrow).

    Authors:

    Linda H. Kooistra, DVM, PhD, DACVP
    Pathologist
    Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
    Research Triangle Park, NC

    Abraham Nyska, DVM, Diplomate ECVP, Fellow IATP
    Expert in Toxicologic Pathology
    Visiting Full Professor of Pathology
    Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Timrat Israel

    Reviewers:

    Joel R. Leininger, DVM, PhD
    Senior Pathologist
    MedImmune
    Washington, DC

    Amy Brix, DVM, PhD, DACVP
    Senior Pathologist
    Experimental Pathology Laboratories, Inc.
    Research Triangle Park, NC