Multimolecular Salivary Mucin Complex Is Altered in Saliva of Cigarette Smokers: Detection of Disulfide Bridges by Raman Spectroscopy

Saliva contains mucins, which protect epithelial cells. We showed a smaller amount of salivary mucin, both MG1 and MG2, in the premenopausal female smokers than in their nonsmoking counterparts. Smokers' MG1, which contains almost 2% cysteine/half cystine in its amino acid residues, turned out...

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Autores principales: Taniguchi, Motoe, Iizuka, Junko, Murata, Yukari, Ito, Yumi, Iwamiya, Mariko, Mori, Hiroshi, Hirata, Yukio, Mukai, Yoshiharu, Mikuni-Takagaki, Yuko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23509686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/168765

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23509686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/168765

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