{"id":158193,"date":"2023-02-16T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/gum-inflammation-parallels-novel-cytokine-score"},"modified":"2023-02-16T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:22:23","slug":"gum-inflammation-parallels-novel-cytokine-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/gum-inflammation-parallels-novel-cytokine-score","title":{"rendered":"Gum inflammation parallels novel \u2018cytokine score\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gum-inflammation-parallels-novel-cytokine-score2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at NYU College of Dentistry have developed a single score to describe the level of cytokines in saliva, and this score is linked with the severity of clinical gum inflammation, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n<p>While more research is needed to test the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cytokine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cytokine<\/a> score,\u201d it could hold promise for measuring how well a patient responds to treatment for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gum+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gum disease<\/a>, predicting gum disease recurrence, or detecting ongoing inflammation related to systemic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeriodontal inflammation is not just apparent upon examination, but is reflected in the patient\u2019s saliva,\u201d said Angela Kamer, DMD, MS, Ph.D., associate professor of the Ashman Department of Periodontology &amp; Implant Dentistry at NYU Dentistry and the study\u2019s senior author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at NYU College of Dentistry have developed a single score to describe the level of cytokines in saliva, and this score is linked with the severity of clinical gum inflammation, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. While more research is needed to test the \u201ccytokine score,\u201d it could hold promise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}