Journal of periodontology
Dextran sodium sulfate confounds causal role of periodontitis in inflammatory bowel disease.
Himanshi Tanwar, Jeba Mercy Gnanasekaran, Niyant Ganesh, Cindy Zhou, Amy Plotkin, Giacomo Baima, Massimo Costalonga, Fenfen Zhou, Hanping Feng, Priyam Jani, Jean-Pierre Raufman, Vivek Thumbigere-Math
Published: 202510.1002/jper.70045
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence supports a bidirectional link between periodontitis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To investigate this relationship, experimental models commonly use dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) to induce colitis. However, DSS is…
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