Relative abundance of total subgingival plaque-specific bacteria in salivary microbiota reflects the overall periodontal condition in patients with periodontitis.

Increasing attention is being focused on evaluating the salivary microbiota as a promising method for monitoring oral health; however, its bacterial composition greatly differs from that of dental plaque microbiota, which is a dominant etiologic factor of oral diseases. This study evaluated the relative abundance of subgingival plaque-specific bacteria in the salivary microbiota and examined a relationship between the abundance and severity of periodontal condition in patients with periodontitis. Four samples (subgingival and supragingival plaques, saliva, and tongue coating) per each subject were collected from 14 patients with a broad range of severity of periodontitis before periodontal therapy.

Identification of the microbiota in carious dentin lesions using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

While mutans streptococci have long been assumed to be the specific pathogen responsible for human dental caries, the concept of a complex dental caries-associated microbiota has received significant attention in recent years. Molecular analyses revealed the complexity of the microbiota with the predominance of Lactobacillus and Prevotella in carious dentine lesions. However, characterization of the dentin caries-associated microbiota has not been extensively explored in different ethnicities and races.

Compositional stability of a salivary bacterial population against supragingival microbiota shift following periodontal therapy.

Supragingival plaque is permanently in contact with saliva. However, the extent to which the microbiota contributes to the salivary bacterial population remains unclear. We compared the compositional shift in the salivary bacterial population with that in supragingival plaque following periodontal therapy.

Interaction of chlorpromazine with 2'-deoxyguanosine-5'-monophosphate by PM3 calculation.

Using the PM3 method, the interactions between chlorpromazine (CPZ) with 2'-deoxyguanosine-5'-monophosphate (dGMP) were examined. We obtained the optimized geometrical structure of each CPZ, dGMP and a CPZ-dGMP system in both aqueous-phase and gaseous-phase and investigated their geometric and electric changes and Force calculation. By Force calculation, three vibrations at 835, 800 and 737 cm-1 were assigned to the antisymmetric and symmetric P-O stretching vibration of PO3(2-) group in Z-dGMP, respectively.