Caterina Montaldo

TL;DR: The acidic-soluble protein content of human gingival crevicular fluid was analyzed by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), and the eluent deriving from the chromatography separation was directly introduced into an ion-trap mass spectrometer through electrospray ionization (ESI-IT MS).

TL;DR: A low number of Sardinian patients was found positive for Aa infections in the oral cavity, (just 10 positive periodontal cases out of 81 and two of these were also saliva positive) and the highly leukotoxic JP2 strain was the most representative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the salivary proteome of 36 Down syndrome subjects was investigated to explore modifications with respect to healthy subjects, and the results showed the following interesting features: as opposed to controls, in down syndrome subjects the concentration of the major salivial proteins of gland origin did not increase with age.

TL;DR: The results showed the following interesting features: as opposed to controls, in Down syndrome subjects the concentration of the major salivary proteins of gland origin did not increase with age; as a consequence concentration of acidic proline rich proteins and S cystatins were found significantly reduced in older Down Syndrome subjects with respect to matched controls.

TL;DR: The results obtained with patients (who were ethnically homogeneous), showed an interesting percentage of positive samples for HPV-DNA, and its prognostic value for the possible incidence in Sardinia of oral carcinoma was reflected.