ABSTRACT
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between salivary oxidative stress and dental-oral health. Healthy young adults, matched for gender and age, with (N = 21, 10 men, mean age: 20.3 ± 1 years) and without (N = 16, 8 men, mean age: 21.2 ± 1.8 years) caries were included in this study. The World Health Organization (WHO) caries diagnostic criteria were used for determining the decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) index. The oral hygiene and gingival status were assessed using the simplified oral hygiene index and gingival index, respectively. Unstimulated salivary total protein, glutathione (GSH), lipid peroxidation and total sialic acid levels, carbonic anhydrase activity, and salivary buffering capacity were determined by standard methods. Furthermore, salivary pH was measured with pH paper and salivary flow rate was calculated. Simplified oral hygiene index and gingival index were not significantly different between groups but DMFT scores were significant (P < 0.01). Only, GSH values were significantly different (P < 0.05) between groups (2.2 and 1.6 mg/g protein in young adults without caries and with caries, respectively). There was a significant negative correlation between DMFT and GSH (r = -0.391; P < 0.05; Pearson's correlation coefficient). Our results suggest that there is an association between caries history and salivary GSH levels.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Young Adult , Carbonic Anhydrases/physiology , Dental Caries/metabolism , Glutathione/analysis , Lipid Peroxidation/physiology , N-Acetylneuraminic Acid/analysis , Saliva/chemistry , Case-Control Studies , DMF Index , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Oral Hygiene Index , Oxidative Stress , Secretory Rate , Young AdultABSTRACT
Vitamin B6 is essential for the metabolism of fat, carbohydrate and protein. In this study the effect of vitamin B6 on diabetes induced impairments in rat lenses was investigated. Although macroscopic examination revealed no opacification of rat lenses in any groups, uncontrolled induced diabetes caused significant decreases in lens glutathione and increases in lens protein nonenzymatic glycosylation and blood glucose. Administration of vitamin B6 did not inhibit these diabetes induced alterations significantly. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed some significant differences in some protein bands between groups.