Malassez cells

Malassez cells
Cells found in the periodontal ligament as ‘epithelial rests of Malassez’. Malassez cells retain the major characteristics of epithelial cells throughout their differentiation from the root sheath epithelium into the rests of Malassez.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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