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Laser irradiation activates a range of cellular processes in the periodontal components and promotes tissue repair. However, its effect on osteogenic differentiation of human cementoblast lineage cells remains...
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Open AccessTranslational research of boron neutron capture therapy for spinal cord gliomas using rat model
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a type of targeted particle radiation therapy with potential applications at the cellular level. Spinal cord gliomas (SCGs) present a substantial challenge owing to thei...
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Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.), a major periodontal pathogen is a known risk factor for various systemic diseases. However, the relationship between P.g. and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)-related hepatocel...
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Open AccessOdontogenic infection by Porphyromonas gingivalis exacerbates fibrosis in NASH via hepatic stellate cell activation
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Odontogenic Pathology
Various pathologies affect the tooth and tooth-forming apparatus such as developmental anomalies, bacterial and nonbacterial tooth injuries, inflammation, cysts, and neoplasms. In this chapter, we describe rep...
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Open AccessNew tumour entities in the 4th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck tumours: odontogenic and maxillofacial bone tumours
The latest (4th) edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck tumours has recently been published with a number of significant changes across all tumour sites. In particular, there ...
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Open AccessGalectin-3 Plays an Important Role in Preterm Birth Caused by Dental Infection of Porphyromonas gingivalis
Dental infection is risk for preterm birth (PTB) through unclear mechanisms. We established a dental infection-induced PTB mouse model, in which Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.) induced PTB by 2 days. We analysed ...
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Involvement of Porphyromonas gingivalis in the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
The risk factors in the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have not been fully clarified. Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g) has been considered to be a confounding risk factor for systemic disea...
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Odontogenic Pathology
Various pathologies affect the tooth and tooth-forming apparatus such as developmental anomalies, bacterial and nonbacterial tooth injuries, inflammation, cysts, and neoplasms. In this chapter, we describe rep...
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Open AccessBio-implant as a novel restoration for tooth loss
A dental implant is used to replace a missing tooth. Fixing the implant in its natural position requires the engineering of a substantial amount of conformal bone growth inside the implant socket, osseointegra...
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Ameloblastin (AMBN), the most abundant non-amelogenin enamel matrix protein, plays a role in ameloblast differentiation. Previously, we found that AMBN promoted osteogenic differentiation via the interaction b...
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N-terminal region of human ameloblastin synthetic peptide promotes bone formation
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of 16 amino acids of the N-terminal region of human ameloblastin (16N-AMBN) synthetic peptide, on the proliferation and differentiation of MC3T3-E1 cells and bon...
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Chronic inflammation-associated bone destruction, which is observed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontitis, is mediated by excessive osteoclastogenesis. We showed previously that γ-glutamyltranspeptida...
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Development of Risk Assessment Methodology Against External Hazards for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors
In this study, hazard evaluation methodologies were developed for the decay heat removal of a typical sodium-cooled fast reactor in Japan against snow, tornado, wind, volcanic eruption, and forest fire. In add...
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Dentinoid is an integral part of some odontogenic tumors. This article describes the clinico-pathological features of three cases of odontogenic carcinomas with dentinoid (OCD). A comparison of these with pre...
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As our knowledge of disease improves, its classification continually evolves. The last WHO classification of odontogenic tumors was 9 years ago and it is time for revision. We offer the following critique as ...
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Dental infection of Porphyromonas gingivalis exacerbates high fat diet-induced steatohepatitis in mice
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