TY - GEN AU - Hany Mohamed Aly Saber AU - Mervat Abdelmonem Rashed , AU - Osama Ibrahim Elshahawy , TI - Role of salivary antimicrobial peptides in caries risk assessment in a group of Egyptian children and their mothers / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hany Mohamed Aly Saber , KW - Alpha Defensins KW - Dental caries KW - ELISA test kit N1 - Thesis(M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Pedodontics; Issued also as CD N2 - The higher the levels of salivary a - Defensin , the lower the levels of Mutans SDtreptococci , the lower the risk to develop dental caries and vice versa.Salivary levels of alpha - defensins(HNP1 - 3)could be a new and useful measure of the risk for caries in children UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -