Domain of Dentine Sialoprotein Mediates Proliferation and Differentiation of Human Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells

• Alkan Ozer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alkan Ozer, Guohua Yuan

  Affiliations Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Orthodontics, YüzüncüYıl University, Faculty of Dentistry, Kampus-Van, Turkey

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• Guohua Yuan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alkan Ozer, Guohua Yuan

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Guobin Yang,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Feng Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Wentong Li,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Yuan Yang,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Feng Guo,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Qingping Gao,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Lisa Shoff,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Zhi Chen,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Isabel C. Gay,

  Affiliation Department of Periodontics & Dental Hygiene, School of Dentistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kevin J. Donly,

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Mary MacDougall,

  Affiliation Department of Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Shuo Chen

  * E-mail: Chens0@uthscsa.edu

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Dentistry, Dental School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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