Interdisciplinary team maps role of P. gingivalis in drug resistance

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: iScience (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109860 A new paper from an interdisciplinary team at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center describes how the bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis interferes with chemotherapy-induced mitophagy, allowing oral cancer

Researchers link tooth loss to increased obesity risk

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An analysis of medical records from 1,765 older adults shows that patients with at least 21 teeth were more likely to maintain a healthy body weight

Dental visits found to increase with support from pediatric providers

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.18217 Primary care pediatric clinicians could influence parents’ decisions to take their children to the dentist, according to a new clinical trial. In a

First narrow-spectrum antibiotic successfully eliminates Fusobacterium nucleatum, a gum disease pathogen

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Microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA sequencing. FP-100 treatment reduced the relative abundance of F. nucleatum without a significant change in alpha diversity, but a significant community shift was demonstrated

Shedding light on how oral bacteria can aggravate rheumatoid arthritis

September 6, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers unveil mechanism by which periodontal bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans exacerbated symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) conducted various experiments in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They investigated the molecular-level