Lepper, C. & Fan, C.M. Inducible lineage tracing of Pax7 - descendant cells reveals embryonic origin of adult satellite cells. (nature.com)
«We wondered if they may be a different type of scale, and have a different embryonic origin more closely related to teeth.» (sciencedaily.com)
Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal cells called keratocytes, which have the same embryonic origin. (sciencedaily.com)