Food texture and vitamin D influence mouse mandible form and molar roots

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Industrialization influenced several facets of lifestyle, including softer nutrient-poor diets that contributed to vitamin D deficiency in post-industrzialized populations, with concomitantly increased dental problems. Here we simulated a post-industrialized diet in a mouse model to test the effects of diet texture and vitamin D level on mandible and third molar (M3) forms. Mice were raised on a soft diet with vitamin D (VitD) or without it (NoD), or on a hard diet with vitamin D. We hypothesized that a VitD/hard diet is optimal for normal mandible and tooth root form, as well as for timely M3 initiation. Subsets of adult NoD/soft and VitD/soft groups were bred to produce embryos that were micro-computed tomography (μCT) scanned to stage M3 development. M3 stage did not differ between embryos from mothers fed VitD and NoD diets, indicating that vitamin D does not affect timing of M3 onset. Sacrificed adult mice were μCT-scanned, their mandibles 3D-landmarked and M3 roots were measured. Principal component (PC) analysis described the largest proportion of mandible shape variance (PC1, 30.1%) related to diet texture, and nominal shape variance (PC2, 13.8%) related to vitamin D. Mice fed a soft diet had shorter, relatively narrower, and somewhat differently shaped mandibles that recapitulated findings in human populations. ANOVA and other multivariate tests found significantly wider M3 roots and larger root canals in mice fed a soft diet, with vitamin D having little effect. Altogether our experiments using a mouse model contribute new insights about how a post-industrial diet may influence human craniodental variation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:307

Enthalten in:

Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) - 307(2024), 3 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 611-632

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Van Ankum, Elsa M [VerfasserIn]
Majcher, Kadin B [VerfasserIn]
Dolovich, Allan T [VerfasserIn]
Johnston, James D [VerfasserIn]
Flegel, Kennedy P [VerfasserIn]
Boughner, Julia C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1406-16-2
Geometric morphometrics
Jaw
Journal Article
Micro-computed tomography
Post-industrial diet
Vitamin D
Vitamin D deficiency
Wisdom tooth

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Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ar.25315

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362000603