Pro-oxidant status and matrix metalloproteinases in apical lesions and gingival crevicular fluid as potential biomarkers for asymptomatic apical periodontitis and endodontic treatment response.

J Inflamm (Lond) · 2012 · PMC3358239 · PMID 22436166

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of borderline significancep = 0.044actually significant

No association was found between TOS, MMP-9 or MMP-2 and age (p > 0.05); whereas TAS and age displayed a positive correlation of borderline significance in the diseased group (r = 0.68, p = 0.044).

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borderline significantno p-value reported

Active MMP-2 also correlated with proMMP-9 (r = 0.6, p = 0.005), as well as active MMP-9 (r = 0.45, p = 0.047), but the later was borderline significant.

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