Anti-apoptotic traits in gingival tissue from patients with severe generalized chronic periodontitis.

Carlos Marcelo da Silva FigueredoJuliana Cardoso AlvesTatiane Flôr Coelho de Souza Breves BeilerRicardo Guimarães Fischer

Published in: Journal of investigative and clinical dentistry (2019)

Significantly higher levels of anti-apoptotic markers, such as Bcl-xL/Bak, Mcl-1/Bak, and Bcl-xL, and lower levels of pro-apoptotic markers Bad and Bim in inflamed tissues indicate an anti-apoptotic trait in patients with sGCP.

Keyphrases

cell death
anti inflammatory
genome wide
gene expression
early onset
drug induced