FIG. 5.

P. gingivalis in the oral cavities of immunocompetent C57BL/6J mice or adhesion molecule-deficient mice 42 days after the final infection. Panels A, B, and C show results of separate experiments. Bars represent the means ± 1 standard error of the mean from the same eight mice as in Fig. 1 and 4. No P. gingivalis was recovered from sham-infected mice. The percentage of P. gingivalis was not significantly different (P > 0.05) in C57BL/6J mice from that in β₂-integrin-deficient mice (A), ICAM-1-deficient mice (B), or P-selectin-deficient mice (C).