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ReviewJournal of tissue engineering

The dental pulp as a high-resolution model for neurovascular niche biology.

Yun Xin, Xuying Wu, Hanyi Shen, Sangni Zou, Bin Liu

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Review in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yun XinDepartment of VIP Dental Service, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital & School of Stomatology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6317-8371
Xuying WuDepartment of VIP Dental Service, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital & School of Stomatology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Hanyi ShenDepartment of VIP Dental Service, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital & School of Stomatology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Sangni ZouDepartment of VIP Dental Service, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital & School of Stomatology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Bin LiuDepartment of VIP Dental Service, Shanghai Stomatological Hospital & School of Stomatology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Building functional tissue in vitro shares a common ceiling. Current models span vascular co-development, trophic interaction, vascular-to-neural sensitization, barrier function, and even functional neuromuscular coupling, yet none has reconstituted functional neurovascular (NV) coupling. We argue that, on one specific axis, the dental pulp is the most direct single-source substrate for dissecting this coupling. A single, clinically accessible neural-crest tissue supplies the perivascular compartment together with glial and neurotrophic support for the neural compartment, in a volume amenable to single-cell methods and one in which an activity-dependent NV interaction is already measurable in vivo. This is a competence claim, not a demonstration; no in-vitro pulp model has closed the loop, leaving unresolved the clinical divergence between reversible and irreversible pulpitis. The review identifies the clinical, experimental, and mechanistic questions a pulp model could resolve, yielding a transferable method for other NV-coupled tissues.

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dental pulpmesenchymal stem cellsneural crestneurovascular couplingpulpitistissue engineering

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PMID42718951
PMCPMC13554625

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