Oxidative stress and myeloperoxidase levels in saliva of patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis

Çağlayan F., Miloğlu Ö., Altun O., Erel Ö., Yılmaz A. B.

ORAL DISEASES, cilt.14, ss.700-704, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2008.01466.x
  • Dergi Adı: ORAL DISEASES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.700-704
  • İnönü Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is themost common oral ulcerative condition affecting 5–25%of the general population. The aim of this study was toevaluate  the  oxidative  stress  parameters  in  saliva  ofpatients  with  RAS  and  to  investigate  the  relationshipamong these parameters in either group.MATERIALS  AND  METHODS:  The  study  involved  50patients with RAS of whom 24 were male and 26 werefemale, and 25 healthy controls of whom 13 were maleand 12 were female.RESULTS:   There  was  no  statistically  significant  differ-ence in the salivary total antioxidant capacity, total oxi-dantstatus,oxidativestressindexlevels,andmyeloperoxidase activity between patients with RAS andthose in the control group.CONCLUSIONS: The results show that reactive oxygenspecies may not play a role in the etiology of RAS