Page 1/22 Human levator veli palatini muscle: A novel source of mesenchymal stem cells for use in the rehabilitation of patients with congenital craniofacial malformations Daniela Franco Bueno (  dbuenousp@gmail.com ) Hospital Sírio-Libanês https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5932-6134 Gerson Shigueru Kabayashi Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto de Biociencias Carla Cristina Gomes Pinheiro Hospital SÍrio-Libanês Daniela Y S Tanikawa Hospital SÍrio-Libanês Cassio Eduardo Raposo-Amaral Hospital Sobrapar Diogenes Laercio Rocha Hospital Sírio-Libanês José Ricardo Muniz Ferreira Instituto Militar de Engenharia Ashigue Hokugo University of California Los Angeles Reza Jarrahy University of California Los Angeles Patricia A Zuk University of California Los Angeles Maria Rita Passos Bueno Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto de Biociencias Research Keywords: Bone reconstruction, mesenchymal stem cells, levator veli palatini muscle, osteogenic differentiation, scaffold, craniofacial malformations DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-42456/v1