A computer-assisted medline search was conducted to find the relevant articles concerning
the periodontal disease markers in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and saliva published …

The determination of biomarkers in saliva is becoming an important part of laboratory
diagnostics and the prediction of not only periodontal, but also other tissue and organ …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials Gly-Pro-4-methyl-coumaryl-7-amide (Gly-Pro-MCA)
was purchased from Peptide Institute Inc.(Osaka, Japan). Sepharose CL-4B was purchased …

Periodontitis is an infectious and inflammatory disease of the tooth-supporting tissues
caused by the accumulation of subgingival plaque and the action of specific …

Background: Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized from the conversion of l‐arginine to l‐citrulline
by NO synthase (NOS). Arginase, which is an arginine‐depleting enzyme, can compete with …

Background: Arginine is converted to nitric oxide (NO) via NO synthase and to ornithine via
arginase. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) catalyzes the conversion of ornithine to …

Bestatin and bacitracin are inhibitors of metallo aminopeptidases and bacterial proteases.
However, their effects on other human peptidases, like dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV, EC …

Background: Neopterin, a marker of cellular immune activation, is produced by human
macrophages after induction by interferon gamma that is secreted by T lymphocytes …

In this study, we characterized a serine protease from Tannerella forsythia that degrades
gelatin, type I, and III collagen. Tannerella forsythia is associated with periodontitis …

Abstract Dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP) 4, DPP5, DPP7 and DPP11, expressed in the
periplasmic space, are crucial for energy production for Porphyromonas gingivalis, an …