Source: International & American Association for Dental Research
Posted: March 27, 2007 - 23:00 PDT
Summary:
A team of researchers from the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo (Japan), have discovered a new technique for culturing cells that have the capacity to produce enamel. This group has recently shown that epithelial cells extracted from the developing teeth of 6-month-old pigs continue to proliferate when they are cultured on top of a special feeder layer of cells. This crucial step boosts the number of dental epithelial cells available for enamel production.
