Bacterial fimbriae activate human periph
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Tomohiko Ogawa; Yasuyuki Asai; Masahito Hashimoto; Hiroshi Uchida
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Bacterial fimbriae are associated with a specific adherence factor, adhesin, in their microbial etiology. Porphyromonas gingivalis, as an anaerobic Gram-negative periodontopathogenic organism, is known to possess fimbriae on its cell surfaces. In this study, we demonstrated that P. gingivalis fimbri