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OnTimePoint User/Training Manual
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Latent Trait Cortisol – A Useful Perspective from Your Salivary Bioscience
Drop Date: January 2020
In This Drop: Salivary Bioscience study designs can take advantage of a participant baseline index for Cortisol available from the study’s saliva samples.
Salimetrics New Website Offers New Study Plan / Quote Builder
(March 23, 2016) Salimetrics, the world’s leading salivary bioscience resource provider, launches new website to better support the growing salivary bioscience community. Earlier today, Salimetrics launched a new, redesigned website,…
Catechol-O-methyltransferase – COMT
…and the ability to follow instructions (1, 2, 3). The well-studied COMT SNP rs4680, results in a valine (Val) to methionine (Met) substitution at position 158 (Val158Met), affects COMT’s ability…
Designing Your Study
Things to Consider When Designing a Salivary Bioscience Study? Salivary Bioscience benefits complex, multi-disciplinary studies by enabling researchers to collect valuable objective measurements without the use of invasive biospecimens. However,…
Saliva Collection Handbook
…with the analyte to be tested. Some analytes can only be tested with samples collected by passive drool. Using a swab to measure these analytes can result in over- or…
Rigor and Reproducibility (Supplement): What Makes A Saliva Lab High-Quality?
Drop Date: April 2019
In This Drop: Rigor and Reproducibility is a three-part series on the steps researchers can take to improve the quality of their salivary bioscience data.
Using Salivary Cotinine Assay to Determine Smoking Status
…and nicotine-N-oxide. The detection of exposure to tobacco smoke by measurement of cotinine is the preferred method, as levels of nicotine are not considered a valid marker of smoking status…
The Entry of Substances into Saliva and the Effect of Flow Rate on Their Concentrations
…blood components pass easily through the capillary walls, bathing the saliva glands. The neutral steroids diffuse readily through the lipo-protein membranes of the secretory cells in the saliva glands and…
SBB – Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Stress
Drop Date: May 2009
In This Drop: Salivary alpha-amylase as a non-invasive biomarker for the sympathetic nervous system
Better Methods: Saliva Collection Basics #1 – Collect More Samples
Drop Date: June 2018
In This Drop: Better Methods is a new, multi-part series highlighting ‘best practice’ methods in salivary bioscience that can have a positive impact on the quality and reproducibility of salivary bioscience research.
How Do I Test Saliva?
How Do I Test Saliva Samples for My Study? Below, you will find both assay kit and lab-related frequently asked questions. Salimetrics offers two convenient options for Saliva analysis –…
Tips for Running Salimetrics Assays
…centrifuged before use in our assays. (Freezing precipitates particulate matter and mucins.) Note: This process must be repeated every time a sample is refrozen, as freezing causes new precipitates each…