“…The differences in the onset and time course of collagen I expression between the periodontal bone and some primary osteoblast cultures is most likely due to the variability of phe- (Rodan, 1981;McCulloch et al, 1987McCulloch et al, , 1989McCulloch and Heersche, 1988 (Pavlin et al, 1998(Pavlin et al, , 2001a (TakanoYamamoto et al, 1994), BSP (Lekic et al, 1996), and osteonectin (Tung et al, 1985)-are also expressed in cementoblasts (MacNeil et al, 1995;D'Errico et al, 1997), while other markers, such as cementum-derived attachment protein and cementumderived growth factor, are specifically associated with cementoblasts (Arzate et al, 1992;Yonemura et al, 1992Yonemura et al, , 1993Pitaru et al, 1993;Liu et al, 1997;Metzger et al, 1998;Saito and Narayanan, 1999). However, there are several differences between bone and cementum, the most obvious being the lack of vascularity and innervation in cementum.…”