Walter Loesche—a Maverick in Translational Research in Dentistry

Abiko Y, Saitoh M, Nishimura M, Yamazaki M, Sawamura D, Kaku T (2007). Role of β-defensins in oral epithelial health and disease. Med Mol Morphol 40:179–184.

Loesche WJ (1979). Clinical and microbiological aspects of chemotherapeutic agents used according to the specific plaque hypothesis. J Dent Res 58:2404–2412.

Loesche WJ (1986). Role of Streptococcus mutans in human dental decay. Microbiol Rev 50:353–380.

Loesche WJ (1987). The best of times and the worst of times. J Dent Res 66:1210–1212.

Loesche WJ (1999). The antimicrobial treatment of periodontal disease: changing the treatment paradigm. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med 10:245–275.

Loesche WJ, Nafe D (1973). Reduction of supragingival plaque accumulation in institutionalized Down’s syndrome patients by periodic treatment with topical kanamycin. Arch Oral Biol 18:1131–1143.

Loesche WJ, Green E, Kenney EB, Nafe D (1971). Effect of topical kanamycin on plaque accumulation. J Am Dent Assoc 83:1063–1069.

Loesche WJ, Bradbury DR, Woolfolk MP (1977). Reduction of dental decay in rampant caries individuals following short term kanamycin treatment. J Dent Res 56:254–265.

Loesche WJ, Syed SA, Stoll J (1987). Trypsin-like activity in subgingival plaque: a diagnostic marker for spirochetes and periodontal disease? J Periodontol 58:266–273.

Loesche WJ, Giordano JR, Soehren S, Kaciroti N (2005). The nonsurgical treatment of patients with periodontal disease: results after 6.4 years. Gen Dent 53:298–306.

Moore KS, Bevins CL, Brasseur MM, Tomassini N, Turner K, Eck H, et al. (1991). Antimicrobial peptides in the stomach of Xenopus laevis. J Biol Chem 266:19851–19857.

Schmidt EF, Bretz WA, Hutchinson RA, Loesche WJ (1988). Correlation of the hydrolysis of benzoyl-arginine naphthylamide (BANA) by plaque with clinical parameters and subgingival levels of spirochetes in periodontal patients. J Dent Res 67:1505–1509.

Zasloff M (1987). Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:5449–5453.