Project description:Periodontitis patients often develop bacteremia, but there has been little evidence showing that oral bacteria translocate into other organs. We found that bacterial colony formation occurs in a culture of liver and spleen cells of periodontitis-induced mice, and the bacterial species detected in the liver and spleen were found in the oral cavity as well, but not in fecal samples, indicating systemic dissemination of oral bacteria during the breakdown of the oral barrier.
Project description:The link between poor oral health and heart failure progression has long been recognized but remains limited to epidemiological associations without mechanistic understanding. Here, we performed Xenium in situ on heart tissue post-transplantation to detect CD4 T-cells that generated in inflamed gingiva during periodontal diseases.
Project description:Epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) of oral rinse samples from a cohort of 82 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450,000 CpGs in oral rinse samples.
Project description:Collectively, viruses are the principal cause of cancers arising in patients with immune dysfunction, including HIV+ patients. Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) etiologically linked to KSHV continues to be the most common AIDS-associated tumor. The involvement of oral cavity represents one of the most common clinical manifestations of this tumor. HIV infection incurs an increased risk for periodontal diseases and oral carriage from a variety of pathogenic bacteria. In the current study, by using 16S rRNA based pyrosequencing, we found that oral shedding of KSHV altered oral microbiota signature in HIV+ patients which may contribute to virus-associated malignancies development.
Project description:The interplay between gingival crevicular fluid microbiome and metabolomic profile in intensively treated people with type 1 diabetes -a combined metagenomic/metabolomic approach cross-sectional study
