No. Author and year of publication Proliferation potential Morphological appearance Functional verification (trilineage differentiation) Phenotypic verification (CD markers) GMSCs Other sources GMSCs Other sources GMSCs Other sources GMSCs Other sources 1 Abedian et al. (2020) [59 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73 ✖: CD34, CD45 ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73 ✖: CD34, CD45 2 Kamel et al. (2019) [64 ] Effective Significantly higher Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells ND ND ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD45 ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD45 Data not reported 3 Sun et al. (2019) [44 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD45, CD19 ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD45, CD19 4 Xing et al. (2019) [61 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spiral-like cells Fibroblast spiral-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD11b, CD19, CD45, HLA-DR ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD11b, CD19, CD45, HLA-DR 5 Angelopoulos et al. (2018) [56 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Angiogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Angiogenic ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD11b, HLA-DR ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD11b, HLA-DR 6 Zhang et al. (2018) [57 ] Comparably effective Significantly higher in 4 dental MSCs and UCMSCs than BMSCs & ADSCs Fibroblast-like cells Fibroblast-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD11b, CD19, CD45, HLA-DR ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD11b, CD19, CD45, HLA-DR 7 Ghaderi et al. (2018) [53 ] ND ND ND ND Osteogenic Adipogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic ✓: CD166, CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD14, CD34, CD45 ✓: CD166, CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44 ✖: CD14, CD34, CD45 8 Aboushady et al. (2018) [62 ] Moderately effective (less than BMSCs and more than SSMSCs) Significantly higher in BMSCs Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells ND ND ND ND 9 Ansari et al. (2017) [54 ] ND ND ND ND Osteogenic Osteogenic ✓: CD146, STRO-1 ✓: CD146, STRO-1 10 Kaibuchi et al. (2017) [46 ] Highest proliferation Higher proliferation in BMSCs and PDLSCs followed by PSCs and ADSCs ND ND Osteogenic NO: adipogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic ✓: CD29, CD44, CD90 ✖: CD31 ✓: CD29, CD44, CD90 ✖: CD31 11 Gao et al. (2014) [55 ] Significantly higher than PDLSCs but lower than DSCs Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Odontogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD29, STRO-1 ✖: CD34, CD45 ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD29, STRO-1 ✖: CD34, CD45 12 Gay et al. (2014) [49 ] ND ND Spindle-like cells Spindle-like cells appear in immunoflouresence pictures Osteogenic Osteogenic ✓: CD105, CD29, STRO-1, integrin b1, SSEA4, OCT4 ✓: CD105, CD29, STRO-1, integrin b1, SSEA4, OCT4 13 Yang et al. (2013) [60 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD29, STRO-1 ✖: CD31, CD34 ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD29, STRO-1 ✖: CD31, CD34 14 Moshaverinia et al. (2012) [45 ] Significantly higher in comparison to BMSCs Significantly higher in PDLSCs than BMSCs ND ND Osteogenic Adipogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic ✓: CD146 ✓: CD146 15 Zorin et al. (2014) [63 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD73 ✖: CD34, CD45 ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD73 ✖: CD34, CD45 16 Moshaverinia et al. (2013) [65 ] Significantly higher Significantly higher (PDLSCs) Effective (BMSCs) ND ND Osteogenic Osteogenic ✓: CD146, CD73 ✖: CD34 ✓: CD146, CD73 ✖: CD34 17 Otabe et al. (2012) [50 ] Effective Effective ND ND Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD166, CD146, CD105, CD90, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD117 ✓: CD166, CD146, CD105, CD90, CD44 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD117 18 Mensing et al. (2011) [47 ] Effective Significantly higher in ScMSCs followed by PDLSCs Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD31 ✓: CD105, CD90 ✖: CD31 19 Fournier et al. (2010) [51 ] NS (not specified) NS Fibroblast-like cells Fibroblast-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ND ✓: CD146, CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44, CD29, STRO-1 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD117, CD200, HLA-DR ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44, CD29 ✖: CD34, CD45, CD117, CD200, HLA-DR 20 Tomar et al. (2010) [58 ] Significantly higher Effective Fibroblast spindle-like cells Fibroblast spindle-like cells Osteogenic Adipogenic Chondrogenic ND ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44, CD29, HLA-ABC ✖: CD14, CD34, CD45, HLA-DR (more stable) ✓: CD105, CD90, CD73, CD44, CD29 ✖: CD14, CD34, CD45, HLA-DR