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A Comparison of the Ability of Intra-oral and Extra-oral Fibroblasts to Stimulate Extracellular Matrix Reorganization in a Model of Wound Contraction

P. Stephens

Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XY, United Kingdom

K.J. Davies

Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XY, United Kingdom

T. Al-Khateeb

Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XY, United Kingdom

J.P. Shepherd

Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XY, United Kingdom

D.W. Thomas

Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine and Pathology, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XY, United Kingdom

Intra-oral wounds, like wounds in children, demonstrate privileged healing when compared with adult wounds at extra-oral sites. This study investigated whether this preferential healing is related to an increased ability of oral mucosal fibroblasts to reorganize extracellular matrix (ECM) when compared with their dermal counterparts. ECM reorganization was investigated by means of a fibroblast-populated collagen lattice (FPCL) system. The effect of donor age was also investigated in this system. Differences in ECM reorganization and FPCL contraction were evident: FPCL contraction was more rapid by oral mucosal fibroblasts than dermal fibroblasts (p < 0.01). FPCL contraction was also greater in child (donor < 10 years) than adult (donor > 18 years) oral mucosal fibroblasts (p < 0.01). These differences were not related to phenotypic differences in cell viability (p > 0.5), DNA synthesis (p > 0.05), and cell number (p > 0.5) within the FPCLs, or cellular attachment to collagen (p > 0.07). FPCL contraction was not stimulated by the addition of conditioned medium from oral mucosal or dermal fibroblasts (p > 0.05). These data show that the significantly increased ability of oral mucosal fibroblasts to reorganize ECM in vitro, when compared with dermal fibroblasts, represents a distinct phenotypic contractile difference, rather than differences in their production of soluble mediators or cell attachment to ECM.

Key Words: collagen lattice • contraction • fibroblasts • wound healing

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Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 75, No. 6, 1358-1364 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345960750060601
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