| 1. | During the inductive stage, ameloblast differentiation from IEE is initiated.
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| 2. | As the ameloblasts degenerate, a gingival sulcus is created.
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| 3. | Each preameloblast elongate and becomes an postmitotic, polarized, secretory ameloblast.
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| 4. | In the secretory stage, ameloblasts are polarized columnar cells.
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| 5. | The enamel organ, including the dental papilla, and ameloblasts function similarly.
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| 6. | More than one ameloblast contributes to a single prism.
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| 7. | Unlike humans whose ameloblasts die after tooth development, rodents continually produce diastema region.
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| 8. | In the maturation stage, the ameloblasts transport substances used in the formation of enamel.
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| 9. | Ameloblasts make enamel at the location of where the cusps of the teeth are located.
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| 10. | Most of the materials transported by ameloblasts in this stage are proteins used to complete mineralization.
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