Indian Journal of Dental Research (Jan 2011)

Proliferative and morphologic characterization of buccal mucosal fibroblasts in areca nut chewers: A cell culture study

  • Deepu George Mathew,
  • K Skariah Skariah,
  • Kannan Ranganathan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-9290.94693
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 6
pp. 879 – 879

Abstract

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Objective: To isolate, culture and characterize fibroblasts from the buccal mucosa of areca nut chewers with and without oral submucous fibrosis (OSF). Materials and Methods: Primary fibroblast cultures were established by the collagenase disaggregation technique and the phenotypic and growth characteristics were studied. Results: Cells cultured from OSF showed a statistically significant increase in both the post-mitotic fibroblast subpopulation and the population doubling time when compared with controls. Conclusion: There was a significant increase in the pro-fibrotic, post-mitotic subpopulation of fibroblasts in areca nut chewers with OSF.

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