PROPIONIC ACID STIMULATES SUPEROXIDE GEN
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SUMI NAKAO; YOSHIKO MORIYA; SHUNSUKE FURUYAMA; RICHARD NIEDERMAN; HIROSHI SUGIYA
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Short-chain carboxylic acids are the metabolic by-products of pathogenic anaerobic bacteria and are found at sites of infection in millimolar quantities. We previously reported that propionic acid, one of the short-chain carboxylic acids, induces an increase in intracellular Ca 2+ ([Ca 2+ ] i ) in h