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Periodontal tissue differentiation of SC is expected to repair peripheral nerve injury
In peripheral axonal regeneration, Schwann cells play an integral role and Schwann cells transplantation has been shown to enhance axonal outgrowth both in vitro and in vivo. However, harvesting autologous Schwann cells may result in defects to the peripheral nerves of the donor. Thus, Prof. Jong-Ho Lee and team from School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Korea have confirmed that periodontal ligament stem cells can differentiate into Schwann-like cells. Their recent study published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 30, 2013) showed that human periodontal ligament stem cells (1 × 106) were injected into the crush-injured left mental nerve in rats. Simultaneously, autologous Schwann cells (1 × 106) and PBS were also injected as controls. The researchers found that human periodontal ligament stem cells and autologous Schwann cells exhibited similar therapeutic effects. The findings from this study suggest that transplantation of human periodontal ligament stem cells show a potential value in repair of mental nerve injury.
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Article: " Human periodontal ligament stem cells repair mental nerve injury " by Bohan Li1, Hun-Jong Jung2, Soung-Min Kim3, Myung-Jin Kim3, Jeong Won Jahng4, Jong-Ho Lee3, 4 (1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Binzhou Medical College, Binzhou, Shandong Province, China; 2 Department of Occupation and Environment, Konkuk Postgraduate Medical School, Choong-Ju, Korea; 3 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; 4 Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
Li BH, Jung HJ, Kim SM, Kim MJ, Jahng JW, Lee JH. Human periodontal ligament stem cells repair mental nerve injury. Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(30):2827-2837.
Periodontal tissue differentiation of SC is expected to repair peripheral nerve injury
2013-12-02
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