Periodontal pathogens Porphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum promote tumor progression in an oral-specific chemical carcinogenesis model

Abstract

// <![CDATA[ $('.header-date').hide();$('#titleAuthors').hide();$('#abstractHeader').hide(); // ]]> Adi Binder Gallimidi1, 2, Stuart Fischman2, Brurya Revach1, Raanan Bulvik1, Alina Maliutina2, Ariel M. Rubinstein1, Gabriel Nussbaum2, *, Michael Elkin1, * 1Sharett Oncology Institute, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute of Dental Sciences, Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel *These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Michael Elkin, e-mail: melkin@hadassah.org.il Gabriel Nussbaum, e-mail: gabrieln@ekmd.huji.ac.il Keywords: oral cancer, TLR2, STAT3, IL-6, periodontitis Received: April 16, 2015 Accepted: May 26, 2015 Published: June 08, 2015