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In this study, we evaluated the diagnostic potential of periodontal pathogens\n                      <jats:italic>Porphyromonas gingivalis<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans<\/jats:italic>\n                      in combination with circulating oncomiRNAs, including miR-21 and miR-155.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 41 PC patients and 40 age- and sex-matched controls were recruited for the study. The salivary bacterial load of\n                      <jats:italic>P. gingivalis<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>A. actinomycetemcomitans<\/jats:italic>\n                      , along with the copy number of miR-21 and miR-155 in blood, were measured using quantitative real-time PCR. Subsequently, logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis were used to determine the association of biomarkers with PC risk and their diagnostic performance, respectively.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Elevated load of the periodontal pathogens\n                      <jats:italic>P. gingivalis<\/jats:italic>\n                      in females (OR\u00a0=\u00a02.31; 95% CI 0.98-5.47) and\n                      <jats:italic>A. actinomycetemcomitans<\/jats:italic>\n                      in diabetic individuals (OR\u00a0=\u00a03.66; 95% CI 0.47-6.68) was associated with a higher risk of PC. Moreover, the diagnostic model incorporating two salivary species and two circulating miRNAs demonstrated an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.878 (95% CI 0.802-0.955).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study offers compelling new evidence supporting the idea that the combined analysis of salivary microbiota and circulating miRNAs serves as an informative avenue for the discovery of non-invasive biomarkers for PC, potentially applicable to early detection and clinical screening.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2025.1678114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,31]],"date-time":"2025-10-31T06:25:42Z","timestamp":1761891942000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Integrated periodontal pathogens and circulating miRNAs: a novel non-invasive panel of biomarkers for pancreatic cancer"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Zeinab","family":"Hesami","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Valerio","family":"Pazienza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meysam","family":"Olfatifar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amir","family":"Sadeghi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samira","family":"Mohammadi-Yeganeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nadia","family":"Trivieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hesameddin","family":"Eghlimi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mojdeh","family":"Hakemi-Vala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elena","family":"Binda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hamidreza","family":"Houri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5721","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.43.11.5721-5732.2005","article-title":"Defining the normal bacterial flora of the oral cavity","volume":"43","author":"Aas","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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