Associations between the phenotype and genotype of MnSOD and catalase in periodontal disease

• Main Authors: Chang-Yu Lee (Author), Chia-Huang Chang (Author), Nai-Chia Teng (Author), Hung-Ming Chang (Author), Wan-Ting Huang (Author), Yung-Kai Huang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Periodontal disease is an inflammatory disease in which pathogenic infections trigger a series of inflammatory responses and redox regulation. The hypothesis of this study was that a host's redox regulation, as modified by genetic polymorphisms, may affect periodontal diseas...