Research Article

Effects of Compressive and Tensile Strain on Macrophages during Simulated Orthodontic Tooth Movement

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Impact of static pressure application (pressure (a–c)) or tensile strain (tension (d–f)) on Tnf-α/TNF-α (a, d), Cox-2/PG-E2 (b, e), and Il-6/IL-6 (c, f) gene and protein expression after 2, 4, 24, or 48 h of treatment. AU: arbitrary units; error bars: standard deviation; mRNA: untreated: , 2 h–48 h: each ; secretion: ; , , and compared to untreated control. Statistics: mRNA: Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Dunn’s multiple comparison post hoc tests; secretion: Mann-Whitney test.
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