National Center for Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology

4 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Developmental Biology

A RANKL-based Osteoclast Culture Assay of Mouse Bone Marrow to Investigate the Role of mTORC1 in Osteoclast Formation

Qinggang Dai^*1, Yujiao Han^*2, Furong Xie^*1, Xuhui Ma³, Zhan Xu², Xiao Liu¹, Weiguo Zou², Jun Wang¹

¹Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center of Stomatology, ²State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ³Department of Oral and Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

This manuscript describes a protocol to isolate and culture osteoclasts in vitro from mouse bone marrow, and to study the role of the mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 in osteoclast formation.

Biology

Skeletal Phenotype Analysis of a Conditional Stat3 Deletion Mouse Model

Yiling Yang^*1, Qianye Chen^*2, Siru Zhou¹, Xinyi Gong¹, Hongyuan Xu¹, Yueyang Hong¹, Qinggang Dai³, Lingyong Jiang¹

¹Center of Craniofacial Orthodontics, Department of Oral and Cranio-maxillofacial Science, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research center of Stomatology, ²Department of Stomatology, Dalian Medical University, ³The 2nd Dental Center, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research center of Stomatology

This protocol describes a canonical method to understand the critical genes controlling osteoclast activity in vivo. This method uses a transgenic mouse model and some canonical techniques to analyze skeletal phenotype.

Medicine

Isolation and Cultivation of Mandibular Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Rats

Yueyang Hong^*1, Hongyuan Xu^*1, Yiling Yang¹, Siru Zhou¹, Anting Jin¹, Xiangru Huang¹, Qinggang Dai², Lingyong Jiang¹

¹Center of Craniofacial Orthodontics, Department of Oral and Cranio-maxillofacial Science, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research center of Stomatology, ²The 2nd Dental Center, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research center of Stomatology

This article presents a method that combines whole bone marrow adherence and flow cytometry sorting for isolating, cultivating, sorting, and identifying bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells from rat mandibles.

Medicine

Real-Time Dynamic Navigation System for the Precise Quad-Zygomatic Implant Placement in a Patient with a Severely Atrophic Maxilla

Yihan Shen^*1, Qinggang Dai^*1, Baoxin Tao^*1, Wei Huang², Feng Wang², Kengliang Lan¹, Yuanyuan Sun¹, Xiaowan Ling¹, Lijun Yan¹, Yueping Wang¹, Yiqun Wu¹

¹The 2nd Dental Center, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National Center for Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, ²Department of Dental Implantology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National Center for Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology

Here, we present a protocol to achieve precise quad-zygomatic implant placement in patients with severely atrophic maxilla using a real-time dynamic navigation system.