Aging has a profound impact on the gingiva and significantly increases its susceptibility to periodontitis,a worldwide prevalent inflammatory disease.However,a systematic characterization and comprehensive understandi...
The gingiva, the masticatory portion of the oral mucosa, is excised and discarded frequently during routine dental treatments and following tooth extraction, dental crown lengthening, gingivectomy and periodontal surg...
supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (#25463100 to Tadashi Saigusa);a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (#25861763 to Yuri Aono) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan;a grant for the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (Hiroko Taguchi, Takayuki Kawato, Masatake Asano, Noriyoshi Shimizu, Tadashi Saigusa);a Nihon University Multidisciplinary Research Grant for 2014–2015 (Yuri Aono, Tadashi Saigusa);research grants from the Sato Fund (Takayuki Kawato, Masatake Asano, Noriyoshi Shimizu, Tadashi Saigusa);the Uemura Fund (Noriyoshi Shimizu, Tadashi Saigusa);the Dental Research Centre (Takayuki Kawato, Masatake Asano, Noriyoshi Shimizu, Tadashi Saigusa) of the Nihon University School of Dentistry
This study used in vivo microdialysis to examine the effects of intragingival application of lipopolysaccharide(LPS) derived from Porphyromonas gingivalis(Pg-LPS) on gingival tumour necrosis factor(TNF)-a and in...
Burkitt's lymphoma(BL) is an aggressive form of nonHodgkin's B-cell lymphoma with three variants namely endemic, sporadic, and immunodeficiency-associated types. It is endemic in Africa and sporadic in other parts of ...
The most significant factor for the success in soft tissue grafts is the synergistic relation between vascular configuration and involved tissues. In the soft tissue graft procedures, site specific donor tissue is ass...
Gingival adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy. We describe the diagnosis and treatment of a 43 year- old woman who presented with a persistent oral ulcer for approximately 1 year, and subsequent pain in...
To investigate the effects of nitric oxide (NO), endothelin (ET), substance P (SP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunocompetence substances and their relationship to chronic periodontitis Methods Immu...