image: Stained gum tissue from healthy controls (left) and patients with periodontitis (right). The diseased tissue is heavily infiltrated with inflammatory T cells. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 17, 2018, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Dutzan at NIDCR, NIH in Bethesda, Md.; and colleagues was titled, " A dysbiotic microbiome triggers TH17 cells to mediate oral mucosal immunopathology in mice and humans." view more
Credit: N. Dutzan <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2018)