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SUBMITTER: Alotaibi DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7595482 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alotaibi Dalal H DH Altalhi Abdulaziz Mohammed AM Sambawa Zainah Mohammed ZM Koppolu Pradeep P Alsinaidi Aljoharah Abdullah AA Krishnan Preeti P
Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences 20200828 Suppl 1
Periodontitis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease, pathogenic bacteria being the primary etiological agents. The host response and the severity of clinical manifestation are determined by genetic and environmental factors. There is some evidence that the individual response to environmental variations in the immune response in periodontitis is associated with genetic factors. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of proteolytic enzymes located in the extracellular matrix. Their prim ...[more]