Role of connexin 43 in odontoblastic differentiation and structural maintenance in pulp damage repair

• Main Authors: Jiaxin Yin (Author), Jue Xu (Author), Ran Cheng (Author), Meiying Shao (Author), Yuandong Qin (Author), Hui Yang (Author), Tao Hu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Dental pulp can initiate its damage repair after an injury of the pulp-dentin complex by rearrangement of odontoblasts and formation of newly differentiated odontoblast-like cells. Connexin 43 (Cx43) is one of the gap junction proteins that participates in multiple tissue repair processes....