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Articles tagged with "periodontitis"

Links Between Gut Bacteria and Rheumatoid Arthritis

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CHICAGO—At the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, Allen C. Steere, MD, delivered the Rheumatology Research Foundation Memorial Lecture honoring the late Charles M. Plotz, MD: Linking Gut Microbial Immunity with Autoimmunity in Joints in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Dr. Steere is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and director of translational research in rheumatology…

Periodontitis May Provide Insight into RA

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Researchers explored the role of carbamylated protein (CarP) and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The results showed significantly higher levels of CarP and NETs in patients with both RA and periodontitis than in healthy controls. The data suggest that RA and periodontitis may share an underlying pathogenic mechanism…