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Tartre dentaire : Questions médicales fréquentes
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Calcul dentaire
Calcul dentaire
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Hygiène bucco-dentaire
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Santé bucco-dentaire
Douleur dentaire
Parodontite
Facteurs de risque
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Tabagisme
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Santé bucco-dentaire
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Médicaments
Santé bucco-dentaire
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5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 07743, Germany.
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO1 7EP, UK, YO1 UK.
York JEOL Nanocentre, University of York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Nova Southeastern University, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33314, USA.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
DANTE - Diet and ANcient TEchnology Laboratory, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161, Rome, Italy.
Centre of Molecular Anthropology for Ancient DNA Studies; Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome Italy.
Present address: PhD Program in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Department of Biology University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome Italy.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome Italy.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome Italy.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome Italy.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO1 7EP, UK, YO1 UK.
York Osteoarchaeology Ltd., Bishop Wilton, York, YO42 1SR, UK.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK. Electronic address: M.Buckley@manchester.ac.uk.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0758.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0758.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0758.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0758.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Departament de Prehistòria, Historia i Arqueología, Universitat de València, València 46010, Spain.
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Publications dans "Tartre dentaire" :
This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the expression levels of C3b and C4b in human gingival tissue (GT) and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and disease severity in human periodontit...
A variety of biomarkers that have potential for informing diagnoses of periodontitis have been proposed. The complement components C3b and C4b were found to be positively correlated with disease sever...
The expression levels of C3b and C4b in the GT and GCF were investigated via immunohistochemistry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively. The correlation between the expression levels of ...
The expression levels of C3b and C4b in human GT and GCF were significantly positively correlated with periodontitis severity. The expression levels of combined C3b + C4b in the GT can significantly d...
Locally deposited C3b and C4b were positively correlated with periodontitis severity and recognized as site-specific diagnostic biomarkers for clinicopathological features in periodontitis. The associ...
The complement component 4 (C4) gene has been reported to be significantly associated with schizophrenia, and C4A RNA expression was found to increase in postmortem brains of schizophrenia patients. T...
Immunological/inflammatory factors are implicated in the development of psychosis. Complement is a key driver of inflammation; however, it remains unknown which factor is better at predicting the onse...
Numerous publications have underlined the link between complement C5a and the clinical course of COVID-19. We previously reported that levels of C5a remain high in the group of severely ill patients u...
IgG3 is unique among the IgG subclasses due to its extended hinge, allotypic diversity and enhanced effector functions, including highly efficient pathogen neutralisation and complement activation. It...
Copy number variation of the C4 complement components, C4A and C4B, has been associated with systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases. This study was undertaken to investigate whether C4 copy number ...
Using targeted DNA sequencing, we determined the copy number and genetic variants of C4 in 2,290 well-characterized Scandinavian patients with SLE, primary SS, or myositis and 1,251 healthy controls....
A prominent relationship was observed between C4A copy number and the presence of SSA/SSB autoantibodies, which was shared between the 3 diseases. The strongest association was detected in patients wi...
We show that a low C4A copy number is more strongly associated with the autoantibody repertoire than with the clinically defined disease entities. These findings may have implications for understandin...
The complement system plays a dual role in the body, either as a first-line defense barrier when balanced between activation and inhibition or as a potential driver of complement-associated injury or ...
The complement system is a key component of the innate immune response to viruses and proinflammatory events. Exaggerated complement activation has been attributed to the induction of a cytokine storm...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gc) is a human-specific pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gc survives in neutrophil-rich gonorrheal secretions, and recovered bacteria predomina...
C4d may be used as a marker to evaluate the condition and prognosis of adults with IgA nephropathy, but there have been few studies of children with IgA nephropathy....
C4d immunohistochemical staining was performed on samples from children with IgA nephropathy with C1q-negative immunofluorescence. The clinical and pathological treatment and prognostic characteristic...
A total of sixty-five children with IgA nephropathy were included in the study and were followed up for an average of 37 months. C4d was mainly deposited along the capillary loops. The urinary protein...
C4d was found to be associated with proteinuria, segmental lesions, and immunosuppressant treatment. Activation of the lectin pathway may reflect the severity of clinical and pathological manifestatio...