• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2010

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether vitrification in the cryopreservation of periodontal ligament (PDL) cells could be useful for tooth banking. Methods: In step 1, primary cultured human PDL cells were cryopreserved in 100% conventional cryopreservation media and 100% vitrification media (ESF40 media) in different temperatures for 2 weeks. In step 2, a series of modified vitrification formulae named T1 (75% vitrification media + 25% F-media), T2 (50% vitrification media + 50% F-media) and T3 (25% vitrification media + 75% F-media) were used to store PDL cells for 2 weeks and 4 weeks in liquid nitrogen. MTT assay was performed to examine the viability of PDL cells. Results: Maximum cell viability was achieved in cells stored in 100% conventional cryopreservation media at $-196^{\circ}C$ (positive control group) in step 1. Compared to the positive control group, viability of the cells stored in 100% vitrification media was very low as 10% in all test conditions. In step 2, as the percentage of vitrification media decreased, the cell viability increased in cells stored for 2 weeks. In 4-week storage of cells in step 2, higher cell viability was observed in the T2 group than the other vitrification formulae while the positive control group had the highest viability. There was no statistically significant difference in the cell viability of 2-week and 4-week stored cells in the T2 group. Conclusions: These observations indicate 100% vitrification media is not successful in PDL cell cryopreservation. Conventional cryopreservation media is currently the most appropriate media type for this purpose while T2 media would be interesting to test for long-term storage of PDL cells.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.167-175
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• 2011

Purpose: Periodontal ligament (PDL) cell differentiation into osteoblasts is important in bone formation. Bone formation is a complex biological process and involves several tightly regulated gene expression patterns of bone-related proteins. The expression patterns of bone related proteins are regulated in a temporal manner both in vivo and in vitro. The aim of this study was to observe the gene expression profile in PDL cell proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization in vitro. Methods: PDL cells were grown until confluence, which were then designated as day 0, and nodule formation was induced by the addition of 50 ${\mu}g$/mL ascorbic acid, 10 mM ${\beta}$-glycerophosphate, and 100 nM dexamethasone to the medium. The dishes were stained with Alizarin Red S on days 1, 7, 14, and 21. Real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed for the detection of various genes on days 0, 1, 7, 14, and 21. Results: On day 0 with a confluent monolayer, in the active proliferative stage, c-myc gene expression was observed at its maximal level. On day 7 with a multilayer, alkaline phosphatase, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2, and BMP-4 gene expression had increased and this was followed by maximal expression of osteocalcin on day 14 with the initiation of nodule mineralization. In relationship to apoptosis, c-fos gene expression peaked on day 21 and was characterized by the post-mineralization stage. Here, various genes were regulated in a temporal manner during PDL fibroblast proliferation, extracellular matrix maturation, and mineralization. The gene expression pattern was similar. Conclusions: We can speculate that the gene expression pattern occurs during PDL cell proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization. On the basis of these results, it might be possible to understand the various factors that influence PDL cell proliferation, extracellular matrix maturation, and mineralization with regard to gene expression patterns.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.289-298
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• 2005

Bone morphogenetic protein-7(BMP-7), a member of the transforming growth factor superfamily, stimulates osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. There are lots of evidences supporting a direct participation of periodontal ligament(PDL) cells on periodontal tissue regeneration. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of recombinant human(rh) BMP-7 on primary rat PDL cells in vitro, with special focus on the ability of bone formation. The PDL cells were cultured with rhBMP-7 at the concentration of 0, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200ng/ml for MTT assay. We evaluated the alkaline phosphatase activity at 3 and 5 days of incubation and the ability to produce mineralized nodules of rat PDL cells at 14 days of cell culture in concentration of 0, 10, 25, 50 and 100ng/ml. The cell activity was not reduced in cells treated with BMP-7 at $10{\sim}100ng/ml$, whereas the cell activity was reduced in the concentration of 200ng/ml than the control at day 1 and 3(p<0.01). At 3 and 5 day, alkaline phosphatase activity was significantly increased in cells treated with BMP-7 at 50ng/ml and 100ng/ml(p<0.05). The area of mineralized bone nodule was greater in cells treated with BMP-7 at 50 and 100 ng/ml than the control(p<0.01). These results suggest that rhBMP-7 stimulate rat PDL cells to differentiate toward osteoblast phenotype and secretion of the extracellular matrix of rat PDL cells.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.441-452
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• 2000

본 실험은 사람의 치주인대세포에서 에스트로겐과 growth hormone(GH)이 상호 어떠한 작용을 하는지를 규명하는 것이 목적이다. 교정치료를 받고자 내원한 환자중에서 건강한 20대 여자환자들의 상하악 제1소구치를 발거하여 치근의 중간1/3부위에서 긁어모은 치주인대 조직을 배양하여 치주인대세포를 얻었다. 사람의 치주인대세포의 분열증식에 대한 $17{\beta}$-estradiol과 hGH의 효과를 평가하고, 치주인대세포에 $17{\beta}$-estradiol을 전처리한 후 치주인대세포의 분열증식에 미치는 hGH의 효과 변화를 평가하였으며, 치주인대세포에 $17{\beta}$-estradiol을 전처리 하였을 경우 치주인대세포에 서 hGH receptor치 발현 양상의 변화를 평가하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. $17{\beta}$-estradiol이나 humangrowth hormone의 단독처리는 사람의 치주인대세포의 분열종식에 큰 영향을 주지 않는다. 2. $17{\beta}$-estradiol $10^{-12}M$로 전처리한 후 hGH를 투여한 경우 hGH의 농도에 관계없이 사람의 치주인대세포의 분열증식을 증가시킨다. 3. 사람의 치주인대세포에는 hGH receptor가 없으나, $17{\beta}$-estradiol $10^{-12}M$로 5시간 이상 처리하면 hGH receptor가 발현된다. 4. hGH이 사람의 치주인대세포의 분열증식에 미치는 효과는 hGH receptor의 발현과 관련이 있으며 $17{\beta}$-estradiol의 전처리가 치주인대세포에서의 hGH receptor의 발현에 기여함으로써 hGH이 치주인대세포에 작용할 수 있도륵 해준다.비, 상악의 대구치간 너비, 구개정 높이가 상관관계가 있었다.에서 치 아이동은 정상상태보다 촉진될 가능성이 있음을 시사한다.따라 평균마찰력은 유의하게 증가하였다. 6. 브라켓간 거리의 변화에 대한 마찰력의 차이는 교정선의 재질에 따라 차이가 나며, 스테인레스 스틸 교정선은 브라켓간 거리가 감소할 때 마찰력이 유의하게 변화하지 않았으나, NiTi 교정선의 경우는 유의하게 증가하였다. 7. 브라켓내의 교정선의 이동속도에 따라 마찰력은 유의하게 변화하지 않았다. 이상의 결과로 볼 때 교정 치료동안 적정 교정력을 유지하기 위해 자가결찰브라켓, 스테인레스 스틸 교정선과 탄성모듈결찰법을 사용하는 것이 유리하며, 치료시기에 따라서 요구하는 마찰력이 다르므로 상황에 따라 재료를 선택하는 것이 중요할 것으로 사료된다.$, B군에서 $4.3\%$ 감소하였다. 7. 수술로 인한 얼굴폭의 변화는 무시할만한 것으로 판단되나 수술후 얼굴의 길이가 짧아져 상대적으로 얼굴의 폭이 넓어보일 수 있으므로 수술시 이에 대한 충분한 고려 및 환자에 대한 설명이 있어야 한다.로는 4-6세군 ($27.5\%$), 6-8세군 ($19.6\%$), 2-4세군 ($13.7\%$)이 $60\%$이상을 차지하여 초등학교 취학 전에 구순의 반흔을 제거하려 함을 알 수 있었다. 8. 비변형 교정수술시기로는 0-2세군 ($7.1\%$), 2-4세군 ($14.3\%$), 4-6세군 ($21.4\%$), 6-8세군 ($14.3\%$)으로 초등학교 취학이전이 $57.1\%$로서 최근의 조기 치료경향을 반영하는 것으로 보인다. 9. 인두피판술은 평균 6세에 시행되었으며, 수술 시행 시기별의 차이를 보이지 않고 고른 분포를

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2007

Tooth loss in elderly is mainly caused by alveolar bone loss via severe periodontitis. Although the severity of periodontitis is known to be affected by age, the aging process or the genetic changes during the aging of periodontal tissue cells are not well characterized. In this study, we investigated the effect of in vitro aging on the change of gene expression pattern in periodontal fibroblasts. Gingival fibroblasts (GF) and periodontal ligament fibroblasts (PDL) were obtained from two young patients and replicative senescence was induced by sequential subcultivation. When more than 90% cells were positively stained with senescence-associated ${\beta},-galactosidase$, those cells were regarded as aged cells. In aged GF and PDL, the level of phosphorylated retinoblastoma (RB) and $p16^{INK4A}$ protein was significantly decreased and increased, respectively. However, the protein level of p53 and p21, well known senescence-inducing genes, did not increase in aged GF and PDL. Although $p27^{Kip1}$ and $p15^{INK4B}$, another cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, were reported to be involved in replicative senescence of human cells, they were decreased in aged GF and PDL. Because senescent cells showed flattened and enlarged cell shape and are known to have increased focal adhesion, we examined the protein level of several integrins. Aged GF and PDL showed increased protein level of integrin ${\alpha}2$, ${\alpha}v$, and ${\beta}1$. When the gene expression profiles of actively proliferating young cells and aged cells were compared by cDNA microarray of 3,063 genes and were confirmed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, 7 genes and 15 genes were significantly and commonly increased and decreased, respectively, in aged GF and PDL. Among them, included are the genes that were known to be involved in the regulation of cell cycle, gene transcription, or integrin signaling. The change of gene expression pattern in GF and PDL was minimally similar to that of oral keratinocyte. These results suggest that $p16^{INK4A}/RB$ might be involved in replicative senescence of periodontal fibroblasts and the change of gene expression profile during aging process is cell type specific.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.511-524
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• 2005

The regeneration of lost periodontal tissue is a major goal of therapy. Periodontal ligament cell(PDL) is a specialized connective tissue that connects cementum and alveolar bone to maintain and support teeth in situ and preserve tissue homoeostasis. Bone morphogenetic proteins(BMPs) have shown much potential in the reconstruction of the periodontum by stimulate new bone and new cementum formation. Limitiations of BMP administration to periodontal lesions is high dose delivery, BMP transient biological activity, and low bioavailability of factors at the wound site. Gene delivery method can be alternative treatment strategy to deliver BMPs to periodontal tissue. The purpose of this study is to investigate efficiency of BMP-2 gene delivery with cell-based therapy using PDL cells. PDL cell were transduced with adenoviruses encoding either BMP-2 or Lac-Z gene. To evaluate osteogenic activity of expressed BMP-2 on PDL cells, we investigated secreted BMP-2, cellular activity, ALPase, produced mineralized nodules. To evaluate collagen scaffold as carrier for transduced cell delivery, we examined morphology and secreted BMP-2 of transducd PDL cells on it. BMP-2 transducd PDL cells produced higher levels of BMP-2, ALPase, mineralized nodules than non transduced cells. Cellular activity of transduced cells was showed similar activity to non transduced cells. Transduce cells attached on collagen scaffold secreted BMP-2 at 7day and was showed similar morphology to non transduced cells. These results demonstrated that transduced PDL cells produced biologically active BMP-2 and collagen scaffold could be carrier of transducd cells.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

Periodontal ligament (PDL) tissue is a connective tissue that is interposed between the roots of the teeth and the inner wall of the alveolar bone socket. PDL is always exposed to physiologic mechanical force such as masticatory force and PDL cells play important roles during orthodontic tooth movement by synthesizing and secreting different mediators involved in bone remodeling. The Wnt/${\beta}$-catenin signaling pathway was recently shown to play a significant role in the control of bone formation. In the present study, we applied cyclic tensile stress of 20% elongation to cultured human PDL cells and assessed its impact after six days upon components of the Wnt/${\beta}$-catenin signaling pathway. RTPCR analysis showed that Wnt1a, Wnt3a, Wnt10b and the Wnt receptor LRP5 were down-regulated, whereas the Wnt inhibitor DKK1 was up-regulated in response to these stress conditions. In contrast, little change was detected in the mRNA expression of Wnt5a, Wnt7b, Fz1, and LRP6. By western blotting we found decreased expression of the ${\beta}$-catenin and p-GSK-3${\beta}$ proteins. Our results thus show that mechanical stress suppresses the canonical Wnt/${\beta}$-catenin signaling pathway in PDL cells.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.473-478
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• 2010

연구목적: 본 연구는 인간의 치수 및 치근단 조직에서 유리된 세포를 이용하여 비교적 최근 소개된 Bioaggregate의 생체친화성을 평가하는 데에 있다. 연구 재료 및 방법: 사람의 발거치로 부터 치수 및 치근단 조직에서 배양된 세포를 이용하였다. Bioaggregate와 white MTA를 혼합하여 세포배양판에 적용한 후 같은 수의 세포를 배양하였다. 1, 3, 그리고 7일 후 위상차현미경을 사용하여 세포의 부착과 성장을 관찰하고 cell viability test를 시행하였다. 얻어진 결과는 Student t-test및 one way ANOVA를 이용하여 분석하였다. 결과: 두가지 종류의 세포 모두 Bioaggregate와 MTA가 혼합된 배양판에서 잘 성장하였으며 Bioaggregate군에서는 inhibition zone이 관찰되지 않았다. Cell viability test에서 두 그룹간 통계적인 유의성 차이는 없었다. 결론: Bioaggreagete는 치수 및 치근단 세포에 대하여 MTA와 유사한 세포친화성을 보였다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.613-625
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• 2006

Periodontal ligament(PDL) cells and human gingival fibroblasts(HGFs) play important roles in development, regeneration, normal function, and pathologic alteration. PDL cells and HGFs have the similarity related with general characteristics of fibroblast such as spindle shaped morphology, the presence of vimentin intermediate filament and the synthesis of interstitial collagens and fibronectin. There were many studies about the differences between PDL cells and HGFs, but they were not about whole gene level. In this study, we tried to explain the differences of gene expression profiles between PDL cells and HGFs, and the differences among three individuals by screening gene expression patterns of PDL cells and HGFs, using cDNA microarray. Although there were some variants among three experiments, a set of genes were consistentely and differentially expressed in one cell type. Among 3,063 genes, 49 genes were more highly expressed in PDL cells and 12 genes were more highly expressed in HGFs. The genes related with cell structure and motility were expressed more highly in PDL cells. These are cofilin 1, proteoglycan 1 secretory granule, collagen type I(${\alpha}$ 1), adducin gamma subunit, collagen type III(${\alpha}$ 1), fibronectin, lumican(keratan sulfate proteoglycan), and ${\alpha}$ -smooth muscle actin. Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase known as the enzyme controlling extracellular matrix with matrix metalloproteinase is more highly expressed in PDL cells, osteoprotegerin known as osteoclastogenesis inhibitory factor is more highly expressed in HGFs. We performed northern blot to verify cDNA microarray results on selected genes such as tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase, fibronectin, osteoprogeterin. The result of northern blot analysis showed that each cell expressed the genes in similar pattern with cDNA microarray result. This result indicates that cDNA microarray is a reliable method in screening of gene expression profiles.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.76-87
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• 1999

The effect of retrograde root-end filling materials(IRM, Super-EBA, Vitremer, MTA) on human periodontal ligament fibroblasts and osteoblasts was observed. The cell activities were evaluated by MTT assay, protein assay and alkaline phosphatase activity examination. The results as follows ; 1. After 24hrs culture, both E1 cells & PDL fibroblast adding root-end filling materials were suppressed cell activities but after 48hrs, cell activities were recovered. 2. Cell activity was lowest in Vitremer followed by IRM, MTA, Super-EBA. 3. Cell activity depression by Vitremer was not concerned with pH changes. 4. Protein synthesis by root-end filling materials were not significant difference in Both E1 cell & PDL fibroblasts but protein synthesis were a little increased by Super-EBA. 5. Alkaline phosphatase activity was increased in E1 cell by Super-EBA & MTA but was not significant differences in E1 cell by IRM & Vitremer. Alkaline phosphatase activity was a little depressed in PDL fibroblast by Vitremer. This findings suggest that these root-end filling materials may have important roles in promotion of PDL healing and consequently may be useful for clinical application in apical surgery.