12 Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms CHARLES J. SCHNEIDER The majority of lymphomas involving head and neck sites are secondary “nodal” lymphomas, which most…
11 Metastasis to Major Salivary Glands PAUL SABINI AND ROBERT L. WITT Skin Cancer and the Salivary Glands Despite its prevalence, nonmelanoma skin cancer often manages to surprise both patients…
17 Medicolegal Perspectives in Salivary Gland Diseases SHERRY C. MCREYNOLDS AND AXEL KOCH This chapter will address and compare how medical malpractice is proved in the United States and Germany,…
3 Embryology, Physiology, and Biochemistry of the Salivary Glands KENNETH R. NISSIM, ROBERT L. WITT AND JONATHAN A. SHIP Embryology Salivary glands are present in amphibians upward. Parotid glands are…
14 Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Radiation-induced Xerostomia CHRISTOPHER A. SULLIVAN Xerostomia is a permanent and devastating sequela of head and neck radiation that affects ~40,000 patients annually in the…
Fig.1 (a) developing tooth in a bud stage, (b) developing tooth in a cap stage, (c) developing tooth in a bell stage During the cap stage (Fig. 1b) (at about…
Source In vitro multipotency In vivo ectopic tissue formation DPSCs [7] Pulp adult teeth Osteogenic, dentinogenic, adipogenic, chondrogenic, neurogenic, myogenic, cardiomyogenic, hepatocyte-like cell, melanocyte Dentin-pulp-like complex Bone-like tissues Adipose…
Type of hydrogel Promising features Experimental approach Result References Peptide-Amphiphile (PA) • Self-assemble into 3D networks • Easy to handle • Can be introduced into small defects • Cell adhesion sequence RGD and an…
Fig. 1 A cluster of titanium dioxide nano-tubes [2] Nanotechnology therefore, involves materials that have a nano-sized topography or are composed of nano-sized materials ranging between 1 and 100 nm…
Fig. 1 Developmental potential of DPSC transplanted with HA/TCP carrier in vivo . (a) After 6 weeks, DPSC generated a dental pulp-like tissue within the HA/TCP carrier (c) with the…
Fig. 1 Embryonic origin of the different tooth components. (Reproduced from www.bronxdentalspa.com/root-canal-bronx.htm) Dentin comprises the main portion of the tooth. It is a mineralized connective tissue secreted by the odontoblasts,…
Fig. 1 Schematic representation of (a) cranial neural crest cell populations (red arrows) represented by the various colors and their migratory paths towards the oral cavity territory (blue–green arrows), and…
Dental stem cells (DSCs) In vitro hepatic differentiation Animal model Remarks Reference Human tooth germ progenitor cells (TGPCs) DMEM low glucose, 2 % FBS, 100 ng/mL a-FGF (5 days); DMEM low…
Fig. 1 Drawing of a section of the human eye. Image courtesy of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health This chapter reviews ongoing research involved in assessing the…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Barbara Zavan and Eriberto Bressan (eds.)Dental Stem Cells: Regenerative PotentialStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-33299-4_13 MSCs and Biomaterials Adriano Piattelli1 and Giovanna Iezzi1 (1) Department of Medical, Oral, and Biotechnological…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Barbara Zavan and Eriberto Bressan (eds.)Dental Stem Cells: Regenerative PotentialStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-33299-4_12 Neuronal Properties of Dental Stem Cells Letizia Ferroni1, Sara Ricci2 and Chiara Gardin1 (1) Department of…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Barbara Zavan and Eriberto Bressan (eds.)Dental Stem Cells: Regenerative PotentialStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-33299-4_9 Stem Cells for Periodontal Regeneration Giorgio Pagni1, 2 (1) Private Practice, Via Lamarmora 29,…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Barbara Zavan and Eriberto Bressan (eds.)Dental Stem Cells: Regenerative PotentialStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-33299-4_3 Isolation and Cryopreservation of Stem Cells from Dental Tissues O. G. Davies1 and B. A. Scheven2 (1)…
Fig. 1 Didactic classification of epigenetic modifications (reproduced with permission from [10]). (a) DNA methylation schematic illustrating the repeating nucleosome, which a single strand of DNA wound round the histone…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Barbara Zavan and Eriberto Bressan (eds.)Dental Stem Cells: Regenerative PotentialStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine10.1007/978-3-319-33299-4_5 Dental Stem Cells and Growth Factors Paolo Ghensi1, 2 (1) Centre for Integrative Biology…
