Azilsartan Increases Levels of IL-10, Down-Regulates MMP-2, MMP-9, RANKL/RANK, Cathepsin K and Up-Regulates OPG in an Experimental Periodontitis Model

• Aurigena Antunes de Araújo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aurigena Antunes de Araújo, Hugo Varela

  * E-mail: aurigena@ufrnet.br

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health/Post Graduation Program in Pharmaceutical Science/Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology,UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• Hugo Varela ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aurigena Antunes de Araújo, Hugo Varela

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health/Department of Dentistry, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• Gerly Anne de Castro Brito,

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program in Pharmacology/Department of Morphology, UFC, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

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• Caroline Addison Carvalho Xavier de Medeiros,

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology, UFRN, Post Graduation Program in Health and Society, UERN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• Lorena de Souza Araújo,

  Affiliation Department of Dentistry, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• José Heriberto Oliveira do Nascimento,

  Affiliation Department of Textile Engineered, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program in Functional and Structural Biology/Post Graduation Program Health Science/Department of Morphology, UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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