Qinggang Dai

May 23, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hongyuan Xu |Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery |Qinggang Dai |Xinyu Wang

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Hongyuan Xu, Qinggang Dai and Xinyu Wang contributing equally to this article. Steve GF. Shen, Qian Bian, Lingyong Jiang contributed equally to the work. Abstract Background and objective Periodontal ligament (PDL) and dental pulp (DP) share a common origin but have distinct biological and mechanical functions. To what extent the mechanoresponsive property of PDL can be attributed to its unique transcriptional profiles of cellular heterogeneity is unclear.