Salivary Gland Anatomy
1 Salivary Gland Anatomy MICHAEL B. RHO AND DANIEL G. DESCHLER The salivary gland system of the upper aerodigestive tract plays a critical role in the functions of digestion, respiration,…
Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninflammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands
4 Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninïammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands MARY F. CUNNANE AND GREGORY J. ARTZ Like exocrine glands generally, the salivary glands are composed of…
Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms
13 Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms ADAM RABEN Several chapters on the management of major and minor salivary gland cancers have been written over the last decade,…
Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis
6 Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis JOHN D. HARRISON The background to our present understanding of sialolithiasis starts in 1896, when Küttner1 published his observations on two patients who had…
Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms
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…
Metastasis to Major Salivary Glands.
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…
Medicolegal Perspectives in Salivary Gland Diseases.
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,…
Embryology, Physiology, and Biochemistry of the Salivary Glands
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…
Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Radiation-induced Xerostomia
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…
for Dental-Related Stem Cells Isolation, Amplification and Differentiation
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…
Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration
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…
Pulp Stem Cells and Hydrogel in Pulp Regeneration
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…
Stem Cells for Pulp Regeneration
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…
Surface and Stem Cells for Implants
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…
Stem Cells for Tooth Regeneration
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…
Stem Cells (DSCs): Classification and Properties
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,…
Hepatocytes for Treatment of Liver Diseases
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…
for Ocular Regeneration
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…
and Biomaterials
© 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…
Properties of Dental Stem Cells
© 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…
