{"id":5982,"date":"2015-09-05T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/elevated-transglutaminase-2-expression-mediates-fibrosis-in-areca-quid-chewing-associated-oral-submucocal-fibrosis-via-reactive-oxygen-species-generation\/"},"modified":"2015-09-05T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T04:00:03","slug":"elevated-transglutaminase-2-expression-mediates-fibrosis-in-areca-quid-chewing-associated-oral-submucocal-fibrosis-via-reactive-oxygen-species-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/elevated-transglutaminase-2-expression-mediates-fibrosis-in-areca-quid-chewing-associated-oral-submucocal-fibrosis-via-reactive-oxygen-species-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated transglutaminase-2 expression mediates fibrosis in areca quid chewing-associated oral submucocal fibrosis via reactive oxygen species generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusions           Our results suggest that TGM-2 expression is significantly upregulated in OSF tissues from areca quid chewers. Arecoline-upregulated TGM-2 expression may be mediated by ROS generation.                               Clinical relevance           TGM-2 protein is upregulated in areca quid chewing-associated OSF. Using this in vitro model, antioxidants could inhibit arecoline-upregulated TGM-2 expression. NAC and EGCG may serve as a useful agent in controlling OSF. (Source: Clinical Oral Investigations)<\/p>\n<div id=\"medworm\">\n<p><b><i>MedWorm Sponsor Message:<\/i><\/b> Directory of the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejanuarysales.com\/\">January Sales<\/a> in the UK. Find the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejanuarysales.com\/\">Christmas presents<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medworm.com\/index.php?rid=133527920&#038;cid=d_11_11_f&#038;fid=33454&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2F10.1007%2Fs00784-015-1579-0\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusions Our results suggest that TGM-2 expression is significantly upregulated in OSF tissues from areca quid chewers. Arecoline-upregulated TGM-2 expression may be mediated by ROS generation. Clinical relevance TGM-2 protein is upregulated in areca quid chewing-associated OSF. Using this in vitro model, antioxidants could inhibit arecoline-upregulated TGM-2 expression. NAC and EGCG may serve as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[8345,8346,6204,3267,615,1787,8344,7,4894,3321,8348,5059,8347,8343],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-areca","tag-chewingassociated","tag-elevated","tag-expression","tag-fibrosis","tag-generation","tag-mediates","tag-oral","tag-oxygen","tag-quid","tag-reactive","tag-species","tag-submucocal","tag-transglutaminase2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}