Effect of sucrose concentration on sucrose-dependent adhesion and glucosyltransferase expression of S. mutans in children with severe early-childhood caries (S-ECC)

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3572-3586

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Li, Wenqing ^a   Lin, Jiacheng ^a   Chen, Zhuoyu ^a   Yu, Dongsheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genotype; Glucosyltransferases; S. mutans; Severe early childhood caries; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADHESION; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARBITRARILY PRIMED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEVERE EARLY CHILDHOOD CARIES; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; TURBIDIMETRY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GLUCANS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE;

EID: 84907200691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6093572     Document Type: Article

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