Effects of metformin on inflammation, oxidative stress, and bone loss in a rat model of periodontitis

• Aurigena Antunes de Araújo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aurigena@ufrnet.br

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology, Post Graduation Program Public Health / Post Graduation Program in Pharmaceutical Science, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9264-4695

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• Aline de Sousa Barbosa Freitas Pereira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Caroline Addison Carvalho Xavier de Medeiros,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology,Post Graduation Program RENORBIO,/Post Graduation Program Biological Science, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Gerly Anne de Castro Brito,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

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• Renata Ferreira de Carvalho Leitão,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

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• Lorena de Souza Araújo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Post Graduation Program Public Health, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Paulo Marcos Matta Guedes,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Post Graduation Program in Parasitary Biology/Post Guaduation Biological Science, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

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• Sarah Hiyari,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, University of California, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Flávia Q. Pirih,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, University of California, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Morphology, Post Graduation Program in Functional and Structural Biology/ Post Graduation Program Health Science/Department of Morphology, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

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