Degradation of arginine and other amino acids by butyrate-producing asaccharolytic anaerobic Gram-positive rods in periodontal pockets

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 423-429

  Uematsu, H ^a   Sato, N ^a   Hossain, M Z ^a   Ikeda, T ^a   Hoshino, E ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAGPR; Arginine; Arginine deiminase pathway; Butyrate; Lysine; Periodontal pockets

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUBACTERIUM INFIRMUM; EUBACTERIUM MINUTUM; EUBACTERIUM SAPHENUM; EUBACTERIUM SULCI; FILIFACTOR ALOCIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037573403     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9969(03)00031-1     Document Type: Article

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