AIM We investigated the long-term impact of adjunctive systemic antibiotics on periodontal disease progression. Periodontal therapy is frequently supplemented by systemic antibiotics, although its impact on the course of disease is still unclear. MATERIAL & METHODS This prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multi-centre trial comprising patients suffering from moderate to ...

Identifying oral cancer lesions associated with high risk of relapse and predicting clinical outcome remain challenging questions in clinical practice. Genomic alterations may add prognostic information and indicate biological aggressiveness thereby emphasizing the need for genome-wide profiling of oral cancers. High-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization was performed to delineate ...

BackgroundSedentary behaviour (SB) is potentially an important target to improve cardiovascular health. This study 1) compared SB between disease (CVD) patients and age-matched controls, 2) identified characteristics associated with high levels, 3) determined the impact of contemporary cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on SB.MethodsFor objective 1, we recruited 131 CVD 117 controls. All participants ...

Gene expression data, collected from ASPS tumors of seven different patients and from one immortalized ASPS cell line (ASPS-1), was analyzed jointly with patient ASPL-TFE3 (t(X;17)(p11;q25)) fusion transcript data to identify disease-specific pathways and their component genes. Data analysis of the pooled patient and ASPS-1 gene expression data, using conventional clustering methods, revealed a...

The androgen receptor (AR) poly-glutamine polymorphism (AR-Q) was reported to play role in endometrial cancer (EMCA) development, yet controversial. Environmental factors interact with genetic variation have been reported in EMCA. Aerosol toxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), are EMCA facilitators. This report examined the interplay between AR-Qs and BaP in EMCA. During ...

BACKGROUND Diabetic nephropathy (DN) affects about 30% of patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and contributes to serious morbidity and mortality. So far only the 3q21-q25 region has repeatedly been indicated as a susceptibility region for DN. The aim of this study was to search for new DN susceptibility loci in Finnish, Danish and French T1D families. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a genome...

Recently, we identified a patient with an infantile sacrococcygeal teratoma and a constitutional t(12;15)(q13;q25). Here, we show that, as a result of this chromosomal translocation, the SUMO/Sentrin-specific protease 1 gene (SENP1) on chromosome 12 and the embryonic polarity-related mesoderm development gene (MESDC2) on chromosome 15 are disrupted and fused. Both reciprocal SENP1-MESDC2 (SEME)...

Deletions and rearrangements involving chromosome 6q have been reported in a number of human cancers such as ovarian and breast tumors as well as melanoma and hemopoietic malignancies. To gain insight into the regions undergoing deletions on the long arm of chromosome 6, we performed a survey of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 11 CA repeat markers, mapping from 6q13 to 6q27 in 83 matched sets o...

We previously reported the identification of mZac, a novel mouse zinc finger protein that shared with p53 the ability to regulate concomitantly apoptosis and cell cycle progression. We describe here the isolation, chromosomal localization, and functional in vitro characterization of its human homolog. hZAC is a widely expressed zinc finger protein that reveals transactivation and DNA-binding ac...