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Salivary and serum inflammatory markers relate to worse self rated health
September 27, 2024Salivary and Serum Analytes and Their Associations with Self-rated Health Among Healthy Young Adults Majeno, A., Granger, D., Bryce, C.I., & Riis, J. L. 2024, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine “We examined how various biological markers of inflammation and metabolism measured in saliva and blood related to how healthy young adults rated their health. Higher [...]
Understanding Salivary C-Reactive Protein as a Biomarker in Military Personnel
September 11, 2024C-reactive protein is a systemic inflammatory biomarker that is positively associated with the development of disease. Salivary C-reactive protein (sCRP) has previously been reported to have a diurnal rhythm with higher levels upon…
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…