Establishing Organoids from Human Tooth as a Powerful Tool Toward Mechanistic Research and Regenerative TherapyLara Hemeryck 1, Ivo Lambrichts 2, Annelies Bronckaers 2, Hugo Vankelecom 1
1Laboratory of Tissue Plasticity in Health and Disease, Cluster of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Development and Regeneration, Leuven Stem Cell Institute, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), 2Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), UHasselt, Hasselt University
We present a protocol to develop epithelial organoid cultures starting from human tooth. The organoids are robustly expandable and recapitulate the tooth's epithelial stem cells, including their ameloblast differentiation capacity. The unique organoid model provides a promising tool to study human dental (stem cell) biology with perspectives for tooth-regenerative approaches.
