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Mouth rinses are a useful supplementary tool for the prevention of oral infectious diseases. Although the antimicrobial effects of mouth rinses have been investigated, there are few studies focusing on the comparison of the effects among various oral bacterial species. In the present study, the inhibitory effect of a commercial mouth rinse, "ConCoolF," and each of its major components, chlorhexidine gluconate, ethanol, and green tea extract, on multiple species of oral bacteria were investigated. Inhibition of bacterial growth was observed in all cariogenic streptococcal species with different genera, serotypes, and strains isolated from different countries when either the complete mouth rinse or chlorhexidine gluconate were used. However, no growth inhibition was observed when the bacteria were exposed to ethanol or green tea extract. Interestingly, growth inhibition was greatly reduced in non-cariogenic streptococci compared with cariogenic streptococci. In addition, both the mouth rinse and chlorhexidine gluconate inhibited the biofilms formed by both Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) and Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis), among which the inhibitory effect against S. mutans was higher than that against P. L-Ornithine L-aspartate manufacturer gingivalis. These results suggest that a mouth rinse containing chlorhexidine gluconate, ethanol, and green tea extract, or chlorhexidine gluconate alone, exhibits antimicrobial activity against several oral bacteria species, having greater activity against pathogenic bacteria.Titanium surface characteristics, including microtopography, chemical composition, and wettability, are essential features to achieve osseointegration of dental implants, but the choice of a particular surface topography is still a debated topic among clinicians. An increased level of implant surface hydrophilicity has been demonstrated to ameliorate osseointegration and shorten healing times. The aim of this work is to develop and test a suitable thermal-based method to enhance titanium surface wettability without modifying other characteristics of the implant surface. For this function, titanium discs with different surface topography have been thermally treated by testing different temperatures and excluding those that led to evident chromatic and morphological modifications. The selected surface gain in wettability after the treatment was assessed through contact angle measurement, chemistry modifications through x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, and microtopography through scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results showed a great enhancement in hydrophilicity on the tested surfaces without any other modification in terms of surface chemical composition and topography. A possible limitation of this method could be the persistent, although relatively slow, biological aging of the surfaces after the treatment. The present findings indicate that the described treatment could be a safe and effective method to enhance dental titanium hydrophilicity and thus its biological performance.The genus Ficus is striking for its species diversity, ecological significance, and its often species-specific relationship with coevolved pollinating fig wasps, which has long fascinated biologists. The three closely related and generally co-distributed dioecious species Ficus hispida, F. heterostyla and F. squamosa provide an ideal system for the study of speciation, hybridization (caused by pollinator sharing) and comparative phylogeography to infer historical biogeography. We aimed to develop microsatellite markers for these allied species to facilitate the outlined study investigations. A DNA library was constructed from one F. heterostyla sample, and 19 microsatellite loci were developed based on high-throughput sequencing. These markers showed relatively high polymorphism in all three fig species. The mean number of alleles per locus was 3.594-5.286, and the mean observed and expected heterozygosity were 0.469-0.546 and 0.467-0.528, respectively. Principal coordinate, STRUCTURE and AMOVA analyses revealed different degrees of genetic differentiation within species, and, despite some observed genetic admixture, indicated the presence of clear boundaries between different species. In summary, we successfully developed universal microsatellite markers for three closely related Ficus species. These markers will be of great value for investigating patterns of biodiversity among the species in this model system for coevolutionary studies.As a result of the extensive decoding of a massive amount of genomic and metagenomic sequence data, a large number of genes whose functions cannot be predicted by sequence similarity searches are accumulating, and such genes are of little use to science or industry. Current genome and metagenome sequencing largely depend on high-throughput and low-cost methods. In the case of genome sequencing for a single species, high-density sequencing can reduce sequencing errors. For metagenome sequences, however, high-density sequencing does not necessarily increase the sequence quality because multiple and unknown genomes, including those of closely related species, are likely to exist in the sample. Therefore, a function prediction method that is robust against sequence errors becomes an increased need. Here, we present a method for predicting protein gene function that does not depend on sequence similarity searches. Using an unsupervised machine learning method called BLSOM (batch-learning self-organizing map) for short oligopeptide frequencies, we previously developed a sequence alignment-free method for clustering bacterial protein genes according to clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (COGs), without using information from COGs during machine learning. This allows function-unknown proteins to cluster with function-known proteins, based solely on similarity with respect to oligopeptide frequency, although the method required high-performance supercomputers (HPCs). Based on a wide range of knowledge obtained with HPCs, we have now developed a strategy to correlate function-unknown proteins with COG categories, using only oligopeptide frequency distances (OPDs), which can be conducted with PC-level computers. The OPD strategy is suitable for predicting the functions of proteins with low sequence similarity and is applied here to predict the functions of a large number of gene candidates discovered using metagenome sequencing.
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