Bromelain: A potential strategy for the adjuvant treatment of periodontitis

• Main Authors: Felipe Rodolfo Pereira da Silva (Author), Any Carolina Cardoso Guimaraes Vasconcelos (Author), Even Herlany Pereira Alves (Author), Paulo Vinicius de Oliveira Junior (Author), Jefferson Soares de Oliveira (Author), Daniel Fernando Pereira Vasconcelos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Bromelain, a mixture of proteases derived from different parts of pineapple, has been described to have therapeutic benefits in a diversity of inflammatory diseases. Such effects are associated to its proteolytic activity. As one of the most common and multifactorial diseases, periodon...