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Involvement of toll-like receptor 4 in alveolar bone loss and glucose homeostasis in experimental periodontitis.
Journal of periodontal research - 1 Feb 2011
Watanabe K, Iizuka T, Adeleke A, Pham L, Shlimon A E, Yasin M, Horvath P, Unterman T G
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is general agreement that certain fatty acids and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) promote inflammation through toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), and that inflammation promotes insulin resistance. We therefore hypothesized that mice with periodontitis and a TLR4 loss-of-functi...
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