Fig. 1From: EDTA soluble chemical components and the conditioned medium from mobilized dental pulp stem cells contain an inductive microenvironment, promoting cell proliferation, migration, and odontoblastic differentiationPulp regeneration after ectopic tooth root transplantation. Pulp regeneration after ectopic tooth root transplantation in SCID mice. Twenty-eight days after transplantation of MDPSCs with (a, e, j, o) nonextracted tooth, (b, f, k, p) HCl-extracted tooth, (c, g, l, q) GdnHCl-extracted tooth, and (d, h, m, r) EDTA-extracted tooth. a–h H & E staining. Pulp-like cells (arrows). i Ratio of regenerated area to root canal area. j–m Hoechst 33342 staining. n Ratio of Hoechst 33342-positive cells to regenerated area. o–r Immunostaining with rat endothelial cell antigen 1 (RECA1). s Ratio of vascularization area to the total regenerated area. Data are expressed as means ± SD of four determinations. **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001Back to article page