Hypoxia and collagen crosslinking in the healthy and affected sites of periodontitis patients.

Conclusions: The results revealed that diseased sites of periodontitis patients had decreased fibroblast cells, HIF and VEGF expressions while increased inflammatory cells. Collagen crosslinking tend to decrease with disease regardless of stage and grade of disease.
PMID: 31174446 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica - June 6, 2019 Category: Dentistry Authors: Taskan MM, Karatas O, Balci Yuce H, Isiker Kara G, Gevrek F, Ucan Yarkac F Tags: Acta Odontol Scand Source Type: research