Oral Microbiome Link to Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma

Konstantin Astafurov; Eman Elhawy; Lizhen Ren; Cecilia Q. Dong; Christina Igboin; Leslie Hyman; Ann Griffen; Thomas Mittag; John Danias

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104416

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Oral Microbiome Link to Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma

Konstantin Astafurov ,

* E-mail: konstantin.astafurov@downstate.edu (KA); john.danias@downstate.edu (JD)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Eman Elhawy,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Lizhen Ren,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Cecilia Q. Dong,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Christina Igboin,

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Leslie Hyman,

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, State University of New York (SUNY) Eye Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Ann Griffen,

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Thomas Mittag,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
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John Danias

* E-mail: konstantin.astafurov@downstate.edu (KA); john.danias@downstate.edu (JD)

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, State University of New York (SUNY) Eye Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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Published: September 2, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104416

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