Oral diseases

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a chronic estrogen-dependent gynecological disease affecting millions of women worldwide. Besides its well-established impact on reproductive health, emerging evidence suggests a potential association between end…

Chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) are conditions that share several clinical characteristics and symptomatology, are usually considered idiopathic in nature, and are frequently comorbid. Currently, there are no established inclusi…

Lipid mediators (LM) of inflammation are a class of compounds derived from ω-3 and ω-6 fatty acids that play a wide role in modulating inflammatory responses. Some LM possess pro-inflammatory properties, while others possess proresolving ch…

The world of non-coding RNAs has only recently started being discovered. For the past 40 years, coding genes, mRNA, and proteins have been the center of cellular and molecular biology, and pathologic alterations were attributed to either th…

Periodontal disease and diabetes, two diseases that have achieved epidemic status, share a bidirectional relationship driven by micro-inflammatory processes. The present review frames the current understanding of the pathological processes …