Cryopreserved Dental Pulp Tissues of Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth Is a Feasible Stem Cell Resource for Regenerative Medicine

• Lan Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lan Ma, Yusuke Makino

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Yusuke Makino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lan Ma, Yusuke Makino

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Haruyoshi Yamaza,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Kentaro Akiyama,

  Affiliation Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Yoshihiro Hoshino,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Guangtai Song,

  Affiliation Department of Pedodontics, School of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Toshio Kukita,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Kazuaki Nonaka,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Songtao Shi,

  Affiliation Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Takayoshi Yamaza

  * E-mail: yamazata@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Oral Anatomy, Graduate School of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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