Study of Pluripotency and Activation of Totipotency in Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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  • IZAWA Shunji
    Department of Operative Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  • YAMAJI Kozo
    Department of Operative Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  • HOSHIKA Tomohiro
    Department of Operative Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  • NISHITANI Yoshihiro
    Department of Operative Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
  • YOSHIYAMA Masahiro
    Department of Operative Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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Abstract

Tissue regeneration is the important issue in the field of operative dentistry. We demonstrated in series of studies that human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) can differentiate into odontblasts under the certain conditions (Izawa S et al., 2009). Mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into multiple types of cells derived from mesenchyme (Liechty KW et al., 2000). At the same time odontblasts are primarily derived from mesenchyme; thus, we expected that mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into odontblasts.The results in series of our study indicated that TNFα is necessary for hMSCs to differentiate into odontblasts and suggest that TNFα activates potential totipotency of hMSCs and the activation can lead to the regeneration of target cells or tissues.

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