Antimicrobial efficiency of and against and .

Background: The application of traditional medicinal plants and their products for treatment has been an integral part of our culture and continues to play a key role as many infectious microorganisms are resistant to synthetic drugs. and herbs have shown medicinal properties and have gained importance in modern research.

Aims: This study assessed the antimicrobial activities of and against and to conventional medications such as chlorhexidine and nystatin.

C-kit Expression in Oral Leukoplakia.

Oral leukoplakia is the most common potentially malignant oral disorder. Oral leukoplakia's malignant potential is independent of the histopathological grade, and the malignant transformation rate varies greatly from 3% to 50% even in the case of severe epithelial dysplasia. Ethnic & environmental variables may contribute to this variation.

Analysis of octamer-binding transcription factor-4 expression in oral leukoplakia.

Background: Oral potentially malignant disorders have a risk for malignant transformation but are difficult to reliably identify and predict which patients are at the risk for malignant transformation. OCT4 has been hypothesized to play a key oncogenic driver in a variety of solid tumors. A deeper understanding of the aberrant molecular pathways which lead to carcinogenesis needs to be identified by the potential markers.