Bladder Smooth Muscle Cells Differentiation from Dental Pulp Stem Cells: Future Potential for Bladder Tissue Engineering

• Main Authors: Bing Song (Author), Wenkai Jiang (Author), Amr Alraies (Author), Qian Liu (Author), Vijay Gudla (Author), Julia Oni (Author), Xiaoqing Wei (Author), Alastair Sloan (Author), Longxing Ni (Author), Meena Agarwal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) are multipotent cells capable of differentiating into multiple cell lines, thus providing an alternative source of cell for tissue engineering. Smooth muscle cell (SMC) regeneration is a crucial step in tissue engineering of the urinary bladder. It is known that DPSCs...