The complexity of oral ulcerations poses considerable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to oral specialists.The expert consensus was conducted to summarize the diagnostic work-up for difficult and complicated oral...The complexity of oral ulcerations poses considerable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to oral specialists.The expert consensus was conducted to summarize the diagnostic work-up for difficult and complicated oral ulcers,based on factors such as detailed clinical medical history inquiry,histopathological examination,and ulceration-related systemic diseases screening.Not only it can provide a standardized procedure of oral ulceration,but also it can improve the diagnostic efficiency,in order to avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis.展开更多
Hypertension is a prevalent systemic disease in the elderly,who can suffer from several pathological skeletal conditions simultaneously,including osteoporosis.Benidipine(BD),which is widely used to treat hypertension,...Hypertension is a prevalent systemic disease in the elderly,who can suffer from several pathological skeletal conditions simultaneously,including osteoporosis.Benidipine(BD),which is widely used to treat hypertension,has been proved to have a beneficial effect on bone metabolism.In order to confirm the osteogenic effects of BD,we investigated its osteogenic function using mouse MC3T3-E1 preosteoblast cells in vitro.The proliferative ability of MC3T3-E1 cells was significantly associated with the concentration of BD,as measured by methylthiazolyldiphenyl-tetrazolium bromide(MTT)assay and cell cycle assay.With BD treatment,the osteogenic differentiation and maturation of MC3T3-E1 cells were increased,as established by the alkaline phosphatase(ALP)activity test,matrix mineralized nodules formation,osteogenic genetic test,and protein expression analyses.Moreover,our data showed that the BMP2/Smad pathway could be the partial mechanism for the promotion of osteogenesis by BD,while BD might suppress the possible function of osteoclasts through the OPG/RANKL/RANK(receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB(NF-κB))pathway.The hypothesis that BD bears a considerable potential in further research on its dual therapeutic effect on hypertensive patients with poor skeletal conditions was proved within the limitations of the present study.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundations of China(No.U19A2005,81771081,81870775)CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS)(2019-12M-5-004,2020-I2M-C&T-A-023)。
文摘The complexity of oral ulcerations poses considerable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to oral specialists.The expert consensus was conducted to summarize the diagnostic work-up for difficult and complicated oral ulcers,based on factors such as detailed clinical medical history inquiry,histopathological examination,and ulceration-related systemic diseases screening.Not only it can provide a standardized procedure of oral ulceration,but also it can improve the diagnostic efficiency,in order to avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81600909 and 81800934)the Zhejiang Provincial Medical Science and Technology Project of China(Nos.2017RC009,2018RC012,and 2021KY773).
文摘Hypertension is a prevalent systemic disease in the elderly,who can suffer from several pathological skeletal conditions simultaneously,including osteoporosis.Benidipine(BD),which is widely used to treat hypertension,has been proved to have a beneficial effect on bone metabolism.In order to confirm the osteogenic effects of BD,we investigated its osteogenic function using mouse MC3T3-E1 preosteoblast cells in vitro.The proliferative ability of MC3T3-E1 cells was significantly associated with the concentration of BD,as measured by methylthiazolyldiphenyl-tetrazolium bromide(MTT)assay and cell cycle assay.With BD treatment,the osteogenic differentiation and maturation of MC3T3-E1 cells were increased,as established by the alkaline phosphatase(ALP)activity test,matrix mineralized nodules formation,osteogenic genetic test,and protein expression analyses.Moreover,our data showed that the BMP2/Smad pathway could be the partial mechanism for the promotion of osteogenesis by BD,while BD might suppress the possible function of osteoclasts through the OPG/RANKL/RANK(receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB(NF-κB))pathway.The hypothesis that BD bears a considerable potential in further research on its dual therapeutic effect on hypertensive patients with poor skeletal conditions was proved within the limitations of the present study.
