Research Article

Elucidation on Predominant Pathways Involved in the Differentiation and Mineralization of Odontoblast-Like Cells by Selective Blockade of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

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Inhibition of ALP activity by SB202190 in MDPC-23 cell. ALP activity on day six was determined as described under Materials and Methods. The results represent average ± SD of cultures (). ALP activity in cultured treated with SP600125 (20 μM) or PD98059 (20 μM) alone was similar to those of Dex group. On the contrary, treatment of cells using SB202190 completely inhibited the ALP activity stimulated by Dex (a-b indicate significant differences between different characters, ).