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Exploring Salivary Metabolomes in Child-Caregiver Dyads: Insights from the Family Life Project
August 20, 2024Human metabolism is complex, and is impacted by genetics, cohabitation, diet, health, and environmental inputs. As such, we applied untargeted LC-MS metabolomics to 1425 saliva samples from a diverse group of…
Assessing Maternal Control Strategies Through Infant-Mother Salivary Cortisol Levels
August 5, 2024Maternal control strategy refers to a mother’s practices used to impel, inhibit, guide, or shape their children’s behaviors during mother-child interaction. The present study examined control strategies used by Chinese urban mothers and how they associated with…
Evaluating Salivary Uric Acid and Stress Hormones Using the Trier Social Stress Test
July 19, 2024Acute physiological responses to psychosocial stressors are a potential pathway underlying racial disparities in stress-related illnesses. Uric acid (UA) is a potent antioxidant that has been linked to disparities in stress-related illnesses, and recent research has shown that UA is…
Fathers’ Alexithymia and Salivary Testosterone Influence Toddlers’ Prosocial Behavior
June 14, 2024The development of prosocial skills in children is a key predictor of long-term social, cognitive, and emotional functioning. However, the role of fathers’ psychological characteristics in …
Assessment of the Relationship Between Behavioral and Physiological Parameters and the Emotional Valence and Arousal in Dogs
June 4, 2024A complete assessment of animal welfare requires not just an understanding of negative emotional states, such as fear and anxiety, but also of positive states, such as…
Inflammageing and the Interplay of Cytokines, Chemokines, and Growth Factors for Targeted Interventions
May 14, 2024Most older individuals develop inflammageing, a condition characterized by elevated levels of blood inflammatory markers that carries high susceptibility to chronic morbidity…
A cluster-randomized trial of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on stress and epigenetic programming
May 1, 2024A regulated stress response is essential for healthy child growth and development trajectories. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial in rural Bangladesh (funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01590095) to assess the effects of an…
Career Opportunity: Join Naval Health Research Center in San Diego as a Sleep Research Scientist
April 24, 2024The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) is seeking an outstanding Sleep Research Scientist to join our…
Cytokine levels measured in gingival crevicular fluid as an oral health application
April 4, 2024With effective antiretroviral therapy, people with HIV (PWH) are living longer and aging; the majority of PWH in the United States are now over the age of 50 and in women have gone through the…
Stress Biomarkers and Child Development in Young Children in Bangladesh
March 22, 2024Hundreds of millions of children in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to chronic stressors, such as poverty, poor sanitation and hygiene, and sub-optimal nutrition. These stressors can have…