1. Introduction
During early development, human dental pulp is originated from neural crest, which is a transient embryonic structure (Fig. 1). According to current knowledge, neural crest stem cells (NCSCs) have the capacity to self-renewal and display a developmental potential almost the same as embryonic stem (ES) cells (Kerkis and Caplan, 2012). These postmigratory NCSCs generate all craniofacial bones, the majority of the peripheral nervous system cells and tissues, as well as several non-neural cell types, such as smooth muscle cells of the cardiovascular system, pigment cells in the skin, cartilage, connective tissue, corneal epithelium and dental pulp among them. Although postmigratory, postnatal NCSCs are of restricted developmental potential they maintain functional characteristics resembling their embryonic counterparts and an ability to differentiate into a broad spectrum of cell types (Le Douarin et al., 2004, 2007, 2008; Dupin et al., 2007; Le Douarin & Dupin, 2003, 2012).
The marathon of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) started when Yamanaka in 2006, by forcing the expression of certain pluripotent genes in fibroblasts, reversed them into a pluripotent state similar to ES cells (Takahashi &Yamanaka, 2006). The main goal of iPSC generation is to create patient-specific cells, which would be advantageous for cell therapy due to immune compatibility (Ohnuki et al., 2009). Research involving the production of iPSC is being developed around the world. Production of iPSC opens new avenues for understanding human genetic diseases; embryogenesis and will likely have a great impact in drug screening and toxicological tests. However, fibroblasts, which were firstly used for iPSC production, present low efficiency and slow process of reprogramming. Moreover, these cells throughout all life are exposed to environmental factors, which can compromise their use as genetic models (Liu, 2008; McDevitt & Palecek, 2008; Nishikawa et al., 2008; Yu & Thomson; 2008; Zhao & Daley, 2008; Maherali & Hochedlinger, 2008; Ooi et al., 2012). Indeed, more immature somatic cells such as, postmigratory NCSCs, and adult stem cells isolated from young organism showed high efficiency of reprogramming (Zouboulis et al., 2008; Muchkaeva et al., 2012). Because of the possibility to isolate NCSCs from easily accessible tissue (e.g. baby teeth is discarded), the dental pulp derived somatic cells have become an ideal model system to study stem cell biology in diseases during different stages of the development (childhood, youth, middle-aged and old) with a special focus on non-invasive source of the cells for investigation of pediatric diseases (Kerkis & Caplan, 2012; Lizier et al., 2012).
Our group isolated and fully characterized human immature dental pulp stem cells (hIDPSC), which is a very attractive cell type, from deciduous teeth (baby teeth) (Kerkis et al., 2006; Lizier et al., 2012). The hIDPSC present fibroblast-like morphology, retain characteristics of adult multipotent stem cells and express at least one of three transcription factors: Oct4, Nanog and Sox2 (Kerkis et al., 2006; Lizier et al., 2012). We also used these cells as an alternative source for iPSC derivation (Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011) (Fig. 2).Different research groups derived iPSC from dental pulp fibroblasts and stem cells from young, middle aged and old patients. The difference was observed between the protocols and efficiency of iPSC generation in all these studies (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011). The present chapter is focused on comparative investigation of the methods and efficiency of iPSC generation from dental pulp stem cells and fibroblasts (control). Differentiation potential, assuredness and the future perspectives of the use of these iPSC derived from dental pulp stem cells in basic research and in biotechnology will also be broadly discussed.
2. Dental pulp somatic cells used for iPSC generation
Human dental tissues are rich in stem cells (Giordano et al., 2011; Kerkis & Caplan, 2012). Different research groups isolated and characterized several types of stem cells used for iPSC generation: (i) from apical papilla (Yan et al., 2010), (ii) from dental pulp of primary exfoliated deciduous teeth (Yan et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011) and (iii) from wisdom teeth (Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010). SCAP (stem cells from apical papilla) were obtained from tissue at the apex of a tooth root (Yan et al., 2010). SHED (stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous) and IDPSC (immature dental pulp stem cells) were derived from exfoliated deciduous teeth (Miura et al., 2003; Kerkis et al., 2006). DPCs (dental pulp cells) and MStCs (mesenchymal/stromal cells) were isolated from human third molars by two independent groups (Takeda et al., 2008; Ikeda et al., 2008). All these cell types present fibroblast-like morphology and however differ in methods of isolation, show significant difference in expression pattern of stem cell markers and in purity of isolated population (Yan et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010).
2.1. Transduction and reprogramming
For reprogramming of SHED/SCAP/DPSCs, heterogeneous primary human dental stem/progenitor cell population at passages 2 and 3 were used (Yan et al., 2010). These populations were tested for their cell surface marker expression by flow cytometry and they were positive for STRO-1, CD146, CD73, CD90, CD105 and negative for CD14, CD34, and CD45, showing typical immunophenotype of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) (Friedenstein et al., 1976; Caplan, 1991). The first study used four factor genes for reprogramming, such as c-Myc [Myc proto-oncogene protein], Klf4 [Krüppel-like factor], Oct4 [octamer-binding transcription factor 4], and Sox2 [(sex determining region Y)-box 2] into pLenti6.2/C-Lumio/V5-DEST vector system. Although the cells started to present morphological changes (fibroblastic to epithelial cell-like transition), the reprogramming process failed. Further, lentiviral vectors pSin-EF2-gene-Pur carrying 1 of the 4 factors Lin28 [Lin-28 homolog A], Nanog (Nanog homeobox), Oct4, and Sox2 were used and first ES-like colonies were obtained. To improve reprogramming efficiency, human genes c-Myc, Klf4, Oct4, and Sox2 were subcloned into the vector pMXs and produced retrovirus was used for second round of transduction. Human fibroblasts, used as a control in this study, were not able to undergo reprogramming under proposed conditions.
Retroviruses expressing four Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc or three (without c-Myc) factors were used for reprogramming DPCs from wisdom teeth and from human dermal fibroblasts (HDFs), which was performed according to the methods previously described (Takahashi et al., 2007). Another group, which used MStCs from wisdom teeth, also demonstrated successful reprogramming of these cells with pMXs retrovirus vectors containing three human Oct3/4, Sox2, and Klf4 factor genes (Oda et al., 2010).
IDPSC is a homogeneous population in respect of the expression of MSCs (Friedenstein et al., 1976; Caplan, 1991) markers, such as CD73, CD105, nestin and vimentin. Within IDPSC population, several cells also express Oct3/4 and Nanog (Kerkis et al., 2006; Lizier et al., 2012). To reprogram IDPSC, our group used four Yamanaka’s factors (Klf4, Oct4, c-Myc and Sox2) and previously established protocol (Takahashi et al., 2007; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011).
2.2. Formation of ES cell-like colonies and expansion
There are several important points that should be considered when iPSC are isolated and expanded: (i) the use of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) as a feeder layer, (ii) the efficiency of reprogramming and (iii) the efficiency of expansion (Takahashi & Yamanaka, 2006; Lewitzky & Yamanaka, 2007; Bilic & Belmonte, 2012). Isolation of iPSC on MEF limits the manipulation and further clinical application of these cells. Thus, isolation and expansion of iPSC without MEF is an important step, which avoids contamination of human cells with animal products. Efficiency of reprogramming depends on different factor, such as gene expression profile of cells, which were used in experiments. It has been shown that more immature cells undergo this process more efficiently, then committed or terminally differentiated cells (Zouboulis et al., 2008; Muchkaeva et al., 2012). And finally, during reprogramming, the cells receive different number of reprogramming factors and/or they did not respond equally to this process, therefore multiple ES-like did not complete reprogramming or non-ES cell-like colonies raised (Aasen et al., 2008; Marchetto et al., 2009). SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs-derived iPSC were obtained using MEF as a feeder layer (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010). IDPSC-derived iPSC were shown to be obtained under both conditions: feeder-free on matrigel-coated dishes and on MEF (Fig. 3) (Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011). It seems that time-course of reprogramming of different cell types varied in accordance with age of cell donor, cell type and number of factors used. Thus, SHED/SCAP/DPSCs-derived iPSC, showed the formation of the first colonies ~2-3 weeks after gene transduction. DPCs-derived iPSC were reprogrammed in ~14 days, when 4 factors were used and in ~ 20-25 days, when reprogramming was performed with only 3 factors. MStCs-derived iPSC were reprogrammed in ~25 days, while IDPSC-derived iPSC demonstrated the formation of first colonies at ~ day 5-11. All studies demonstrated that efficiency of iPSC derivation from dental pulp tissues is higher than that from human dermal fibroblast and primary gingival fibroblasts (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011). Because the MStCs were a heterogeneous cell population, Oda and co-authors (2010) additionally used clonally expanded MStCs in reprogramming experiments. They observed that reprogramming efficiency in clonally expanded MStCs was higher and it correlates with cell proliferative ability. The clones, which showed higher proliferative ability, demonstrated a rate of reprogramming ~ 30–100-fold higher than HDFs and ~ 7-fold higher than clones with lower proliferative ability. The IDPSC also present high reprogramming efficiency and no difference was observed between the cells from both donors. Therefore, difficulties in reprogramming SHED/SCAP/DPSCs can be related with cell heterogeneity of original populations (Yan et al., 2010).
Furthermore, the aging process influences all organs, tissues and cells of organism. The studies showed that this factor is also important for cells reprogramming (Zouboulis et al., 2008; Banito et al., 2009). SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs/IDPSC were isolated from young donors of variable ages 7, 10, 12, 13, 14 16, 19, 20 and 24 years old. The difference in efficiency of iPSC generation was observed between MStCs isolated from third molars of 10-, 13-, and 16-year-old donors. More efficient reprogramming was observed when MStCs from the 10-year-old donor were used. Similar observation was made by Tamaoki and co-wokers (2010). In our study we used IDPSC from 7 years old donors and we observed rapid and efficient reprogramming in both cell populations.
2.3. Provirus integration
Viral vectors are commonly used to deliver genetic material into cells, which can be performed
2.4. Characterization of SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs/IDPSC-derived iPSC
2.4.1. Expression of pluripotent stem cell markers
As expected in all studies, the iPSC obtained from tissues of dental origin, which showed ES-like cells morphology, express key markers of pluripotent stem cells in an appropriate manner. Immunofluorescence study demonstrates uniform expression of these antigens in iPSC colonies derived from different types of dental stem cells. Transcription factor proteins as Oct3/4, Nanog, Sox2 demonstrate nuclear localization, while cell surface markers, such as stage specific embryonic antigen (SSEA) 3 and SSEA4, as well as cell surface antigens of human embryonic carcinoma cells (TRA-1-60 and TRA-1-81) show cell surface localization. Appropriate expression of transcription factors Klf4, c-Myc, Lin28, that were part of the transgene used for reprogramming, also was observed (Yan et al. 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011) (Fig. 4).
2.4.2. Expression of molecular markers of pluripotent stem cells
Only one study performed quantitative PCR analysis before and after reprogramming for endogenous expression of Oct4, Nanog and Sox2 genes and compared the expression level of all these genes with those in pluripotent human ES cells. Albeit we revealed a tendency for increasing of expression of pluripotent factors Oct4, Nanog and Sox2, when compared to non-reprogrammed cells (18%, 1% and 2%, respectively), it was significantly lower 20% (Oct4), 10% (Nanog) and 40% (Sox2) in comparison with human ES cells (100% - Oct4, Nanog, Sox2) (Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011). Other studies did not provide any data about expression of these key markers in SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs – derived iPSC in comparison with ES cells (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010). However, Oda and colleagues (2010) demonstrated that expression levels of Oct4, Nanog, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc, Lin28 and P53 was higher in iPSC derived from clonally isolated MStCs, when compared with parental cell lines, iPSC-derived from these lines and HDFs, used as a control.
Yan et al., (2010) quantified by real-time PCR the expression levels of endogenous Klf4 and c-Myc. Klf4 showed relative higher expression in DPC lines than in HDFs, however lower than in ES cells. Endogenous c-Myc expression in most DPC lines was also slightly higher than that in HDFs and in a few iPSC clones were close to ES cells. In contrast, Oda et al., (2010) observed low expression of Klf4 in high reprogramming cells, which was unexpected, once Klf4 is a reprogramming factor. Yan et al., (2010) showed that endogenous Klf4 expression level determined by real-time PCR did not completely correlate with the reprogramming efficiency of each DPCs (wisdom teeth) line. It is noteworthy that highly expression of KLF4 was previously reported in senescent cells and terminally differentiated cells (Shields et al., 1996; Conkright et al., 1999). Taken together, these data suggest that endogenous Klf4 expression may not be the single factor in charge for the reprogramming efficiency to MSCs derived from wisdom teeth.
2.4.3. Searching for new factors of reprogramming
Oda et al., (2010) tried to find the additional unknown factor(s) that could help in the cell reprogramming. They focused their study on practically two genes: PAXIP1 (or PTIP) and PARP. PAXIP1 acts as component of a histone H3 lysine four (H3K4) methyltransferase complex (Cho et al., 2007; Patel et al., 2007) and has a role in DNA double-strand break repair (van Attikum and Gasser, 2009). It was demonstrated that efficient reprogramming of pluripotent gene (Oct3/4, Sox2) expression is associated with H3K4 methylation in mouse somatic cell nuclei transplantation into amphibian oocytes (Murata et al., 2010). The expression of this gene was about 30% more in the high reprogramming cells than in low reprogramming as well as 3–4 times more in iPSC when compared with each parental cell line. PARP-1 belongs to PARP family being the most abundant member and is responsible for > 85% of nuclear PARP activity modifying histone structure through DNA-dependent “PARylation”. Higher expression of PARP-1 was also seen after induction of reprogramming in cells derived from wisdom teeth. The authors supposed that due to possible conformational change of chromatin by direct/indirect actions of chromatin modification proteins such as PAXIP1 and possibly PARP-1, high iPSC generation clones may be accessible for reprogramming factors. However, further investigation is needed to illuminate the iPSC reprogramming mechanisms using these genes.
2.4.4. Methylation status of cytosine guanine dinucleotides (CpG)
The methylation status of CpG in the promoter regions of Nanog and Oct4 was examined using bisulfite DNA sequencing method in two studies (Yan et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010) and of Nanog in one study (Tamaoki et al., 2010). They showed that parental MStCs from wisdom teeth were highly (Oct3/4) or partially (Nanog) methylated and the iPSC-derived from these cells were highly unmethylated, suggesting that these promoters were active after cells reprogramming. In contrast, the analysis of iPSC clones derived from DPSCs (wisdom teeth) and SHED (deciduous teeth) showed that Nanog promoter had similar or slightly higher number of methylated sites, than their non-transduced counterparts. The SHED-/DPSC-iPSC had less methylated sites of Oct3/4 promoter than the non-transduced cells (Yan et al., 2010).
2.4.5. Telomerase activity
Telomerase activity is known to be highly activated in ES cells in order to maintain the integrity of chromosome structure. After reprogramming, SHED- (deciduous teeth) SCAP-, and DPSC (wisdom teeth) - iPSC showed telomerase activity very close to ES cells and a lot more in comparison to their non-transduced counterparts (Yan et al., 2010). Parental DPSCs (wisdom teeth) showed low telomerase activity whereas in each iPSC telomerase activity was high (Oda et al., 2010).
2.4.6. Karyotype analysis of dental stem cell-derived iPSC
Karyotype study has been performed by all authors and demonstrated that karyotype of reprogrammed cells remained unchanged (Fig. 5). Overall, during reprogramming of stem cell from dental pulp, numerical and gross structural chromosomal abnormalities were not detected (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010; Beltrão-Braga et al., 2011).
2.5. Differentiation of SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs/IDPSC-iPSC
2.5.1. Embryoid body formation and in vitro differentiation
Similar to human ES cells, iPSC require the formation of embryoid bodies (EB) in order to undergo
2.5.2. Teratoma formation
To test the pluripotency, iPSC were injected into the testis or intramuscularly into the right and/or left hind leg of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse. Teratomas formation by SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs–iPSC occurs of nine to eleven weeks after injection and histological examination of the tumor shows representative tissues of three embryonic germ layers, such as gut-like epithelium (endoderm), cartilage (mesoderm), and neuroepithelial rosettes (ectoderm) (Yan et al., 2010; Tamaoki et al., 2010; Oda et al., 2010). Teratomas obtained from IDPSC-iPSC were formed between 5 and 7 weeks after reprogrammed cells injection. The mice injected with parental IDPSC, as expected, did not form teratomas. We observed that teratomas were composed by tissues originated from three primary germ layers. Histological characterization of tumor masses showed that these teratomas includes ectodermal: primitive neural tissues, including neural tube and neural rosettes and retinal epithelium; mesodermal: muscle-like cells and gromerulus-like structures and endodermal tissues: respiratory or gastro-intestinal-like epithelium and glandular-like tissue formation (Fig. 7). Similar to
2.6. HLA typing
Tamaoki and co-wokers (2010) determined the human leukocyte antigens (HLA) types of 107 dental pulp cells lines in the Japanese population and identified 2 cell lines with homozygous HLA types at all 3 loci (A, B, and DR) examined. They showed that in the Japanese population the frequencies of haplotypes of these 2 homozygous cell lines were estimated to be 8.7% and 1.5%, data provided by the Japanese Red Cross Society (http://www.bmdc.jrc.or.jp/stat.html). Using these frequencies, the coverage rate for a perfect match of iPSC lines, which were established from these 2 lines was calculated. The authors showed that iPSC lines established from these 2 homozygous cell lines would cover 16.6% and 3.0% of the Japanese population, respectively, which corresponds to approximately 20% of the Japanese population.
2.7. SHED/SCAP/DPSCs/DPCs/MStCs/IDPSC-iPSC bank and therapeutic use
One of the major challenge of pluripotent stem cells use in cell therapies is an immune-mediated rejection after transplantation. Today, this problem can be overcome by direct reprogramming of patients somatic cells and by creating an iPSC bank consisting of various HLA types thus providing therapeutic tool for the patients, which need cell transplantation free from immune-mediated rejection. Two works reported that the establishment of 50 unique stem cells lines, having homozygous alleles of the 3 HLA loci (A, B, and DR), would cover ~ 90% of the Japanese population with a faultless match of these loci (Nakajima et al., 2007; Nakatsuji et al., 2008). Considering that iPSC derivation is a time consuming process and of elevated cost, it should be necessary for cell therapies and regenerative medicine to establish iPSC banks with a sufficient collection of HLA types, thus avoiding additional costs which are required for iPSC production for each individual patient.
2.7.1. Requirements of iPSC generation
In spite of optimistic prognosis in respect of how many iPSC should be produced in order to satisfy their immunological matching within definite human population, several requirements must be challenged before establishing iPSC bank. The principal requirement is a method of reprogramming, which should be safe. Therefore, three major concerns exist in the current reprogramming strategies for clinical applications: (i) the low reprogramming efficiency of human somatic cells makes it difficult to generate patient-specific iPSC, when a small amount of the cells of the patient is used; (ii) carcinogenesis may be caused by genomic integration of retro- or lentiviral fragments into host DNA; and (iii) Myc is an oncogene, which after reactivation might cause malignant tumor formation. Whereas iPSC can be generated by three transcription factors (Oct3/4, Sox2, and Klf4) without Myc, reprogramming efficiency are significantly reduced. Although, several methods of iPSC generation without viral integration have been reported; their efficiencies are extremely low in comparison with viral vectors used for induction of reprogramming (Okita et al., 2008; Stadtfeld et al., 2008; Fusaki et al., 2009; Kaji et al., 2009; Kim et al., 2009; Soldner et al., 2009; Woltjen et al., 2009; Yu et al., 2009; Yusa et al., 2009; Zhou et al., 2009). Next important issue is availability of donor cells, which can provide high efficiency in the generation of non-integrated human iPSC. Therefore, source of the cells also makes its own demand, such as, it should be easily accessible with minimum discomfort for the patient, the procedure of stem cell isolation should be non-invasive, the tissue should be easily processed, the cells should be rapidly proliferating and produced in sufficient quantities, these cells should be young and collected from healthy volunteers. Furthermore, the possibility of genetic abnormalities in donor cells due to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation should be minimized and finally, these cells would be able to be stored in liquid nitrogen for a long time without the loss of their prime characteristics.
Dental pulp stem cells from deciduous and wisdom teeth are an ideal source that meets the majority of aforementioned requirements. The loss of baby (deciduous) teeth occurs naturally and they can be removed with minimal discomfort to the patient during a routine visit to the dentist, in many clinics, as well as wisdom teeth. We also showed that not only cells, but also dental pulp can be cryopreserved and new cells can be obtained later, after thawing (Lizier et al., 2012). Therefore, frozen dental pulp does not require
2.7.2. Perspectives of iPSC therapeutic use
Currently, iPSC are used to understand human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to develop and screen bioactive molecules - candidate to therapeutic drugs and to identify molecules or genes implicated in tissue regeneration. These
3. Final considerations
Different dental tissues, which include apical papilla, primary exfoliated deciduous and permanent teeth, as well as wisdom teeth were used to derivate iPSC. The data obtained by different authors indicate that these tissues can be easily isolated and MSCs cells in sufficient quantities can be obtained. MSCs
In cell types with endogenously expression of one or more of the factors that induce pluripotency, such as neural cells that strongly express Sox2, pluripotency may be induced more easily or even with only a subset of factors (de Souza, 2010). In accordance, we observed that in hIDPSC, which express these factors, but at low level, the reprogramming was speedier, when compared with other dental tissue derived stem cells. During reprogramming, the integration the 4 factors into the genome of the transduced SHED/SCAP/DPSC-iPSC occurred (Yan et al., 2010). Currently, the nonintegrating reprogramming approaches, which include adenoviruses, plasmid- and episomal vector-based methods, and delivery of reprogramming factors directly as proteins have been developed. Additionally, other factors have been identified that can substitute the four Yamanaka’s traditional transcription factors. Thus, Klf227 and Klf5 can replace Klf4, Sox1 and Sox3 can replace Sox2, and n-Myc and I-Myc can replace c-Myc (Nakagawa et al., 2008). Nr5a2 (Nuclear receptor subfamily 5, group A, member 2) can be used to substitute Oct-4 in the reprogramming of murine somatic cells (Heng et al., 2010). Some small molecules as the histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid can replace Klf4 and c-Myc for reprogramming human fibroblasts (Huangfu et al., 2008; Lin et al., 2009).
The creation of patient-specific stem cell lines is relevant for the study of basic biology, molecular mechanisms of various diseases, for drug discovery and for treating a number of human degenerative diseases without evoking immune rejection. HLA typing of DPC lines (Tamaoki et al., 2010) is of extreme importance because allows to limit the number of human iPSC, which should be obtained for each definite human population, thus avoiding unnecessary elevated costs of iPSC for cell therapies and regenerative medicine. So far, human iPSC have been used for the study of the reprogramming process itself and establishment of disease-specific cell lines and the differentiation of these cell lines into the different cell types affected by the disease, such as, spinal motor neurons, dopaminergic neurons and cardiomyocytes derived from patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Dimos et al., 2008), spinal muscular atrophy (Ebert et al., 2009), sporadic Parkinson’s disease (Soldner et al., 2009). Exploration of iPSC is still in its infancy, and understanding the true potential of these cells requires continued research, comprehension and profound comparisons with human ES cells.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Dr. Alysson Muotri from University of California San Diego, Dr. Patricia Beltrao-Braga and Dr. Paulo Maiorka from University of Sao Paulo for their contribution in our research.References
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