Hypoxia enhances colony formation and proliferation but inhibits differentiation of human dental pulp cells
Hypoxia enhances colony formation and proliferation but inhibits differentiation of human dental pulp cells
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DOI:
10.1016/j.archoralbio.2010.06.005
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发表时间:
2010-09-01
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3
通讯作者:
Tezuka, Ken-ichi
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作者:
Iida, Kazuki;Takeda-Kawaguchi, Tomoko;Tezuka, Ken-ichi
The hypoxia condition was expected to be suitable for the establishment and maintenance of human dental pulp cells (hDPCs), because they reside in a low-oxygen environment in vivo. Therefore, we presently examined the effects of hypoxia on the proliferation and differentiation of hDPCs in vitro. hDPCs grown under 3% O-2 showed a significantly higher proliferation rate than those under 21% O-2. Then, we prepared hypoxic cultures of hDPCs from older patients' teeth having inflammation and succeeded in recovering and expanding a small number of hDPCs. These cells were confirmed to have capability for osteo/odontogenic differentiation. Hypoxia suppressed the osteo/odontogenic differentiation of hDPCs in vitro and increased the number of cells expressing STRO-1, an early mesenchymal stem cell marker. This simple method will increase the possibility to obtain living hDPCs from damaged and/or aged tissues, from which it is ordinarily difficult to isolate living stem cells with differentiation capability. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.