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ReviewOral health & preventive dentistry2023

Oral Porphyromonas gingivalis Infections Increase the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: A Review.

Yuwen Fu, Xin Xu, Yu Zhang, Peng Yue, Yuxin Fan, Meixiao Liu, Jingjing Chen, Aihua Liu, Xiufeng Zhang, Fukai Bao

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Review in Oral health & preventive dentistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Probiotics alleviate oral microbiota disruptions induced byFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
    Trial
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Association between Alzheimer's disease andWorld journal of biological chemistry · 2025
    Article
  6. Review
  7. The endotoxin hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2024
    Review
  8. Emergence of Antibiotic-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Yuwen Fu
Xin Xu
Yu Zhang
Peng Yue
Yuxin Fan
Meixiao Liu
Jingjing Chen
Aihua Liu
Xiufeng Zhang
Fukai Bao

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodontal disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are inflammatory diseases affecting the adult population of the world. PD is mainly caused by infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis) and by the synergistic action of various microorganisms. These microorganisms penetrate into the subgingival tissue and cause bacteremia, leading to disruption of the homeostasis of the internal environment of the body. Virulence factors known as gingipains, which are cysteine proteases and other toxins, including fimbria and lipopolysaccharides (LPS), are strongly associated with periodontitis and other systemic inflammation. PD has a known polymicrobial aetiology, and patients who eventually develop sporadic AD tend to have recurrent infections before a clinical diagnosis of dementia. AD, the most common neurodegenerative disease, is characterised by poor memory and specific hallmark proteins. An increasing number of studies have shown that periodontal pathogens are increasingly associated with this form of dementia. Many articles have shown that P. gingivalis infections directly increase the risk of PD and may indirectly lead to the development of AD. However, these links and probable pathogenesis remain to be explored. The aim of this review was to explore whether P. gingivalis periodontal infection is associated with AD and to provide possible mechanisms of association.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseNeurodegenerative DiseasesPeriodontal DiseasesPeriodontitisAdultHumansInflammationPorphyromonas gingivalisAlzheimer's diseaseneurodegenerative diseaseperiodontal diseasePorphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis)

Identifiers

PMID36651311
PMCPMC11619833
OpenAlexW4317359122

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