Publication Date:
2013-10-03
Description:
Article Salivary gland dysfunction as a result of diseases or ageing reduces the quality of life and causes various oral health problems. Here the authors show that the salivary gland function of mice can be recovered by orthotopic transplantation of a bioengineered salivary gland germ. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms3498 Authors: Miho Ogawa, Masamitsu Oshima, Aya Imamura, Yurie Sekine, Kentaro Ishida, Kentaro Yamashita, Kei Nakajima, Masatoshi Hirayama, Tetsuhiko Tachikawa, Takashi Tsuji
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink