Concise reviews: Characteristics and potential applications of human dental tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 627-638

  Liu, Junjun ^a   Yu, Fang ^b   Sun, Yao ^b   Jiang, Beizhan ^b   Zhang, Wenjun ^c   Yang, Jianhua ^a   Xu, Guo Tong ^d   Liang, Aibin ^d   Liu, Shangfeng ^b  

^a TENTH PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Hematology ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Cell based therapy; Dental stem cell banks; Dental stem cells; Immunomodulation; Mesenchymal stem cells; Tissue regeneration

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CD31 ANTIGEN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; NESTIN; NEUROFILAMENT M PROTEIN; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 3; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALVEOLAR BONE; BONE REGENERATION; CELL POPULATION; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; DENTATE GYRUS; GINGIVA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH PULP; TOOTH ROOT; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH SAC;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENTAL PULP; DENTAL SAC; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84923259504     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1909     Document Type: Review

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