Salivary Concentrations of Urea Released from a Chewing Gum Containing Urea and how These Affect the Urea Content of Gel-Stabilized Plaques and Their pH after Exposure to Sucrose

Caries Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 344-353

  Dawes, C ^a   Dibdin, G H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acid; Ammonia; Chewing gum; Computer modelling; Plaque; Saliva; Streptococcus vestibularis; Sucrose; Urea

Indexed keywords

CARIOGENIC AGENT; SEPHAROSE; SUCROSE; UREA; UREASE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHEWING GUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; SALIVA; SECRETION; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; TIME; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CARIOGENIC AGENTS; CHEWING GUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL PLAQUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SEPHAROSE; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS; UREA; UREASE;

EID: 0035464283     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047473     Document Type: Article

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