Salivary metabolic profile in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma and potentially malignant disorders.
Researchers compared salivary metabolites in oral leukoplakia, lichen planus, oral squamous cell carcinoma and healthy controls, finding distinct metabolic changes across disease groups with shared alterations in pyruvate metabolism and pathways involving amino acids and glucose.
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