"Porphyromonas gingivalis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria originally classified within the BACTEROIDES genus. This bacterium produces a cell-bound, oxygen-sensitive collagenase and is isolated from the human mouth.
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D016966
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.140.094.625.515 B03.440.425.410.194.625.515
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Porphyromonas gingivalis" by people in Profiles.
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Osteoprotegerin is sensitive to actomyosin tension in human periodontal ligament fibroblasts. J Cell Physiol. 2021 08; 236(8):5715-5724.
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Antibodies to periodontogenic bacteria are associated with higher disease activity in lupus patients. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2019 Jan-Feb; 37(1):106-111.
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Identification of multiple strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis using heteroduplex polymerase chain reaction in varying severity of chronic periodontitis. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2018 Jan-Mar; 36(1):81-86.
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Defining the role of Porphyromonas gingivalis peptidylarginine deiminase (PPAD) in rheumatoid arthritis through the study of PPAD biology. Ann Rheum Dis. 2015 Nov; 74(11):2054-61.
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Roles of the host oxidative immune response and bacterial antioxidant rubrerythrin during Porphyromonas gingivalis infection. PLoS Pathog. 2006 Jul; 2(7):e76.
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Inactivation of the Porphyromonas gingivalis fimA gene blocks periodontal damage in gnotobiotic rats. J Bacteriol. 1994 Feb; 176(4):1052-9.
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Genetic structure of populations of Porphyromonas gingivalis associated with periodontitis and other oral infections. Infect Immun. 1993 Jan; 61(1):204-12.
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Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the fimbrillin locus, fimA, of Porphyromonas gingivalis. J Dent Res. 1992 May; 71(5):1173-81.