Antibody response to Actinomyces antigen and dental caries experience: Implications for caries susceptibility

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 764-769

  Levine, Martin ^a   Owen, Willis L ^b   Avery, Kevin T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCES ANTIBODY; ACTINOMYCES ANTIGEN; APATITE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DEXTRO ALANYL POLY(GLYCEROPHOSPHATE); GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; DENTAL CARIES; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACTINOMYCES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 23844473273     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.6.764-769.2005     Document Type: Article

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