Etiopathology Of Oral Submucous Fibrosis : Role Of Areca Nut Constituents And Transforming Growth Factor-β Signalling

Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic inflammatory disease resulting in progressive fibrosis of the oral tissues that can cause difficulty in chewing, swallowing, speaking, and mouth opening. Epidemiological studies have shown that OSF is a precancerous condition and 2-8% of the OSF patients de...

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Main Author: Khan, Imran
Other Authors: Kondaiah, Paturu
Language:en_US
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/2477
http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/3196/G25339-Abs.pdf