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Periodontitis-associated pathogens P. gingivalis and A. actinomycetemcomitans activate human CD14(+) monocytes leading to enhanced Th17/IL-17 responses.
European journal of immunology - 1 Sept 2016
Cheng Wan-Chien, van Asten Saskia D, Burns Lachrissa A, Evans Hayley G, Walter Gina J, Hashim Ahmed, Hughes Francis J, Taams Leonie S
Abstract excerpt
The Th17/IL-17 pathway is implicated in the pathogenesis of periodontitis (PD), however the mechanisms are not fully understood. We investigated the mechanism by which the periodontal pathogens Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) promote a Th17/IL-17 response in vitro, and studied IL-17(+) CD4(+) T-cell frequencies in gingival tissue and peripheral blood from patients with...
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