Immune response of macrophages from young and aged mice to the oral pathogenic bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis.

As epidemiological data support that incidence of periodontal disease increases with age [ 18 , 19 ], and our data using wild type Pg indicated that BMM from aged mice displayed an overall trend of reduced ability to produce immune mediators as compared to that of young mice.

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