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ArticleScientific reports2020

Saliva proteomic patterns in patients with molar incisor hypomineralization.

K Bekes, G Mitulović, N Meißner, U Resch, R Gruber

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effectiveness of different anaesthetic techniques, agents and adjunctive interventions in handling pain during dental treatment of MIH-affected teeth: a systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026
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  2. Effective anaesthesia when treating teeth affected by molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH): a systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025
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  4. Oral microbiome signatures of molar-incisor hypomineralisation: insights from a pilot study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026
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  8. A proteomics approach to understand the hypomineralisation of second primary molars (HSPM). In-vitro study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025
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  9. A scoping review of proteomic alterations in molar-incisor hypomineralisation: insights from enamel and salivary composition.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025
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  16. Label-free quantitative proteomics reveals molecular correlates of altered biomechanical properties in molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH): an in vitro study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

K BekesDepartment of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. katrin.bekes@meduniwien.ac.at.
G MitulovićProteomics Core Facility, Clinical Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
N MeißnerPrivate practice, Salzburg, Austria.
U ReschDepartment of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
R GruberDepartment of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Medical University of Vienna · ATAustrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration · ATPädagogische Hochschule Salzburg · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is an endemic pediatric disease with an unclear pathogenesis. Considering that saliva controls enamel remineralization and that MIH is associated with higher saliva flow rate, we hypothesized that the protein composition of saliva is linked to disease. To test this, we enrolled 5 children aged 6-14 years with MIH showing at least one hypersensitive molar and 5 caries-free children without hypomineralization. Saliva samples were subjected to proteomic analysis followed by protein classification in to biological pathways. Among 618 salivary proteins identified with high confidence, 88 proteins were identified exclusively in MIH patients and 16 proteins in healthy controls only. Biological pathway analysis classified these 88 patient-only proteins to neutrophil-mediated adaptive immunity, the activation of the classical pathway of complement activation, extracellular matrix degradation, heme scavenging as well as glutathione -and drug metabolism. The 16 controls-only proteins were associated with adaptive immunity related to platelet degranulation and the lysosome. This report suggests that the proteaneous composition of saliva is affected in MIH patients, reflecting a catabolic environment which is linked to inflammation.

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AdolescentChildCohort StudiesComplement ActivationDental CariesDental Enamel HypoplasiaExtracellular MatrixFemaleGlutathioneHemeHumansIncisorMaleMass SpectrometryMolarNeutrophilsGlutathioneHemeProteome

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PMID32371984
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