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Characteristics of tongue coating microbiota in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney patients receiving hemodialysis [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Background Tongue-coating microbiota, especially known as the tongue microbiome, holds significant value as both a prospective clinical diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target, which plays a crucial role in the oral microecological health.
Qiang Luo, Siyuan Chu, Yongqun Wu, Lingling Jin, Rui Liu, Yulin Xu, Yina Yu, Yawei Jin, Luckress Ornelle Edouarda Phyfamin Houndekon, Heshen Hu, Yvchen Zou, Hao Huang, Haimin Chen   +12 more
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Tongue Coating Grading Identification Using Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Imaging Data

IEEE Access, 2023
Tongue diagnosis is one of the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which has important value in clinical disease diagnosis and efficacy evaluation.
Dong Zhang, Wentai Pang, Keyi Wang, Fengwen Yang, Junhua Zhang   +4 more
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Analysis of Quantitative Light-Induced Fluorescence Images for the Assessment of Bacterial Activity and Distribution of Tongue Coating [PDF]

Healthcare (Switzerland), 2023
Yu-Rin Kim, Hyun-Kyung Kang
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Oral-Gut Microbiome Analysis in Patients With Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease Having Different Tongue Image Feature

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to identify the biological correlation between the tongue coating color and oral and gut micro-characteristics in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) patients.MethodThe characteristics of the tongue ...
Chenxia Lu, Hui Zhu, Dan Zhao, Jia Zhang, Kai Yang, Yi Lv, Miao Peng, Xi Xu, Jingjing Huang, Zuoyu Shao, Zuoyu Shao, Zuoyu Shao, Zuoyu Shao, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao, Mingzhong Xiao, Xiaodong Li, Xiaodong Li, Xiaodong Li, Xiaodong Li   +20 more
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Quantification of tongue coating using quantitative light-induced fluorescence-digital image analysis and its correlation with visual evaluation

Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2023
Background: The tongue coating is a grayish-white deposit that quickly reflects the state of health or disease of the human body. Quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF) is a novel digital imaging system that objectively quantifies tongue coating ...
Raghavendra Shanbhog, Gunica Harjai, Saisaumya Tiwari, Nandlal Bhojraj   +3 more
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Species composition and overall diversity are significantly correlated between the tongue coating and gastric fluid microbiomes in gastritis patients

BMC Medical Genomics, 2022
Background In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that the “tongue coating is produced by fumigation of stomach gas”, and that tongue coating can reflect the health status of humans, especially stomach health.
Jiaxing Cui, Siyu Hou, Bing Liu, Mingran Yang, Lai Wei, Shiyu Du, Shao Li   +6 more
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Effect of salivary antimicrobial factors on microbial composition of tongue coating in patients with coronary heart disease with phlegm-stasis syndrome

World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2022
Objective: Phlegm-stasis syndrome is one of the most common traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes and found in 59% of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) in routine TCM clinical practice in China.
Juan Ye, Ke-Lei Su, Yue-Hua Xu, Yang Yang, Qian Zhou, Wei Gao, Xue-Ting Cai, Qing-Yu Wei, Meng Cao, Peng Cao   +9 more
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Tongue features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Integrative Medicine Research, 2020
Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely used in the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Tongue features should be referred for diagnosis and treatment of diseases in TCM.
Wentai Pang, Dong Zhang, Junhua Zhang, Nan Li, Wenke Zheng, Hui Wang, Chunxiang Liu, Fengwen Yang, Bo Pang   +8 more
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Tongue coating

Journal of breath research, 2018
Everyone knows someone who has a bad breath. You would rather prefer not to sit next to that person in a party for a long conversation. Most if these individuals have the condition for many years and often known by many others. The medical term for this condition is halitosis.
Seerangaiyan, Kavitha, Juch, Frits, Winkel, Edwin G.   +2 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source