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Oral Microbiology at a Glance
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2010.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Oral Microbiology at a Glance
- Contents
- About the authors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to oral microbiology
- Commensals and pathogens
- Oral diseases
- 2 In the beginning
- The first microbes
- Microbial basis of infectious disease
- Miller and the chemoparasitic theory of caries
- Oral and dental research
- 3 Caries as an infectious disease
- Dental caries as a transmissible disease
- Streptococcus mutans
- Mutans group streptococci
- Link between S. mutans and dental caries
- Immunity to caries
- 4 General properties of saliva
- Saliva production
- Protective role of saliva
- Salivary pellicle
- Saliva as a nutrient
- 5 Salivary mucins and agglutinins
- Composition of mucins
- Properties of mucins
- Bacterial agglutination
- 6 Secretory immunoglobulin A
- Production of S-IgA
- Functions of S-IgA
- Inactivation of salivary defenses
- Development of S-IgA
- The window of infectivity
- Selective IgA deficiency
- 7 Anti-microbial properties of saliva
- Anti-microbial components in saliva
- 8 Innate defenses
- Anti-microbial peptides (AMPs)
- Human AMPs
- 9 Microbes in the oral cavity
- Primary colonizers
- Beneficial effects of bacterial colonizers
- Ecological plaque hypothesis
- Ecology and disease
- 10 Molecular microbial taxonomy
- Molecular taxonomy
- Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis
- DNA chips
- 11 Systems approaches to oral microbiology
- Transcriptomics
- Proteomics
- Gene ontology
- Post-translational networks
- Tiled arrays
- 12 Oral streptococci
- The genus Streptococcus
- Viridans streptococci
- Lancefield grouping
- Relatedness and pathogenicity of streptococci
- 13 Microbial adherence
- Adherence
- Long-range adherence
- Specific adhesion
- Oral bacterial adhesins and receptors
- 14 Complex communities
- Inter-microbial reactions
- Co-adhesion
- Metabolic associations
- Antagonism
- 15 Biofilms
- Biofilm development
- Microbial recognition of surfaces and interbacterial communication
- The biofilm matrix, resilience and resistance
- 16 Bacterial polysaccharides
- Extracellular polysaccharide production
- Glycosyltransferases and fructosyltransferases
- Glucan binding proteins
- EPS produced by oral Gram-negatives
- 17 Microbiology of caries
- Structure of teeth
- Dental caries
- Types of dental caries
- Important bacteria in caries
- Emerging and polymicrobial pathogens
- 18 Virulence factors of S. mutans
- Initial attachment to tooth surfaces
- Polysaccharide production
- Acid production
- Acid tolerance
- Biofilm adaptation
- 19 Host and environmental factors in caries
- Host factors
- Dietary factors
- Caries risk assessment
- 20 Fluoride
- Modes of action of fluoride
- Strategies for fluoride delivery
- Anti-microbial effects of fluoride
- Enhancing anti-microbial effects
- 21 Anti-caries strategies
- Inhibitors
- Probiotics
- Immunization
- Vaccination