Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Sex effects on gingival transcriptomic patterns during initiation, progression, and resolution of periodontitis,” which published February 28 in Journal of Periodontology. The study used a nonhuman primate (Macaca mulatta) model of experimental ligature-induced periodontitis in adult animals to evaluate gingival transcriptomic differences stratified based upon sex of the animal.

Ebersole and Nguyen also co-authored “Sex and Age Effects on Healthy Gingival Transcriptomic Patterns,” which first published May 26 online in Journal of Dental Research. The study used nonhuman primates representing a human-like model for periodontitis and examined the gingival transcriptome stratified on gender and age.