Human oral squamous cell carcinomas (hSCCs) are the most common head and neck cancers now presenting with more aggressive biological clinical features due to smoking alcohol together widespread viremia. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) proteins powerful morphogens that induce rapid substantial induction of endochondral bone formation but in primates only.

The initiation of osteogenesis in the mandibular mesenchyme of the embryonic chick at 7 days is dependent upon an epithelial induction which occurs in the mandible up to the fourth day in ovo. In the present study, transfilter tissue recombinations were used to study this inductive mechanism. The epithelial and mesenchymal components of the mandibles were separated before the completion of the ...

Macroporous single phase hydroxyapatite (HA) and biphasic HA/β-tricalcium phosphate with 33% post-sinter hydroxyapatite (HA/β-TCP) were combined with 25 or 125 μg recombinant human transforming growth factor-β3 (hTGF-β(3)) to engineer a super activated bioreactor implanted in orthotopic calvarial and heterotopic rectus abdominis muscle sites and harvested on day 30 and 90. Coral-derived calcium...

Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a metaplastic biological process in which there is newly formed bone in soft tissues adjacent to large joints, resulting in joint mobility deficit. In order to determine which treatment techniques are more appropriate for such condition, experimental models of induced heterotopic bone formation have been proposed using heterologous demineralized bone matrix impl...

background: bone marrow stromal stem cells (bmsc) are appropriate source of multipotent stem cells that are ideally suited for use in various cell-based therapies. it can be differentiated into neuronal-like cells under appropriate conditions. this study examined the effectiveness of co-stimulation of creatine and retinoic acid in increasing the differentiation of bmsc into gabaergic neuron-lik...

Bone tissue engineering is a promising field of regenerative medicine in which cultured cells, scaffolds, and osteogenic inductive signals are used to regenerate bone. Human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) are the most commonly used cell source for bone tissue engineering. Although it is known that cell culture and induction protocols significantly affect the in vivo bone forming ability of B...

Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) plays an important role in vascular disease, transplantation, and inflammation. In animal models of acute and chronic inflammation, induction of HO-1 has anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective properties. Since inflammation is an important trigger of osteoclastogenesis, we hypothesized that HO-1 might influence osteoclastogenesis. We investigated the effects of induction o...