Salivary Dipeptides and Microbiota Multiomics Biomarkers of Caries
Researchers combined microbiome and metabolome analysis of saliva from Swedish adolescents and young adults to identify biomarkers of tooth decay, finding three specific dipeptides inversely associated with caries and several bacterial species linked to disease presence.
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