Dr. Keith Lough Kirkwood DDS PHD
Periodontist | Periodontics
ELM AND CARLTON STREETS BUFFALO NY, 14263About
Dr. Keith Kirkwood practices Periodontics in Livonia, MI. A periodontist is a dentist who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of periodontal disease, and in the placement of dental implants. Dr. Kirkwood has expertise in the treatment of oral inflammation and often treats problematic periodontal cases, such as those with severe gum disease or a complex medical history. Some treatments that Dr. Kirkwood provides are scaling and root planing and root surface debridement.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- IL-1 beta increases type 1 inositol trisphosphate receptor expression and IL-6 secretory capacity in osteoblastic cell cultures.
- Functional cooperation between interleukin-17 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha is mediated by CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein family members.
- Dentotherapeutics: the twenty-first century.
- Update on antibiotics used to treat orofacial infections.
- Preferential attachment of human gingival fibroblasts to the resin ionomer Geristore.
- Root surface conditioning with nicotine or cotinine reduces viability and density of fibroblasts in vitro.
- MKK3/6-p38 MAPK negatively regulates murine MMP-13 gene expression induced by IL-1beta and TNF-alpha in immortalized periodontal ligament fibroblasts.
- Prostaglandin production by human gingival fibroblasts inhibited by triclosan in the presence of cetylpyridinium chloride.
- MKK3/6-p38 MAPK signaling is required for IL-1beta and TNF-alpha-induced RANKL expression in bone marrow stromal cells.
- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharide induces interleukin-6 expression through multiple mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways in periodontal ligament fibroblasts.
- Novel host response therapeutic approaches to treat periodontal diseases.
- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharide-mediated experimental bone loss model for aggressive periodontitis.
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