Effect of NonSurgical Periodontal Therapy on Plasma Levels of IL-17 in Chronic Periodontitis Patients with Well Controlled Type-II Diabetes Mellitus-A Clinical Study

• Main Authors: Vishnu Jayakumar Sunandhakumari (Author), Arun Sadasivan (Author), Elizabeth Koshi (Author), Aswathy Krishna (Author), Aneesh Alim (Author), Aneesh Sebastian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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For years the pathogenesis of periodontitis was under an immunological Th1/Th2 paradigm. Th1 cells are considered to afford protection against the intracellular pathogens. These cells produce the interferons (IFN) that are involved in macrophage activation, which, in turn, plays an important role in...