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Year 2009 | May-August | Volume 13
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Editorial |
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| The first word |
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| D Arunachalam |
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| Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" or "the more things change, the more they stay the same" Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (Les Guêpes, January 1849).
I have often wondered if thi... |
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Review Article |
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| Anticytokine therapy for periodontal diseases: Where are we now? |
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| Yogesh Prakash Waykole, SS Doiphode, PS Rakhewar, Maya Mhaske |
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| Periodontal destruction is initiated by bacteria that stimulate host responses leading to excess production of cytokines. Anticytokine therapy for periodontal diseases especially targets proinflammato... |
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Original Article |
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| Evaluation of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in the peripheral blood of patients with chronic periodontitis |
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| Dhruva Kumar Gani, Deepa Lakshmi, Rama Krishnan, Pamela Emmadi |
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| Aims and Objectives: The aim of the present study was to investigate systemic levels of inflammatory markers of cardiovascular diseases like C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in patients wi... |
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Original Article |
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| Estimation of nitric oxide as an inflammatory marker in periodontitis |
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| KB Menaka, Amitha Ramesh, Biju Thomas, N Suchetha Kumari |
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| Nitric oxide (NO) is not only important in host defense and homeostasis but it is also regarded as harmful and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of inflammatory and autoimmune ... |
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