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The role of immune responses in bone loss during periodontal disease
1Biology Department, Bates College, Lewistown, Maine 04240, USA.
Microbes and Infection
|September 29, 2000
Abstract:
A network of cytokines and other soluble mediators unites the immune system and bone; bacterial infections induce immune responses which may perturb this network. Periodontal diseases are Gram-negative infections resulting in bone loss in the jaw. Evidence is presented that immune responses to these infections produces net resorption of bone.