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Salivary Cortisol variability is influenced by social characteristics of owner and dog
…conflict. We investigated dyadic psychobiological factors influencing intra-individual cortisol variability in response to different challenging situations by testing 132 owners and their dogs in a laboratory setting. Salivary cortisol was…
Chronic caregiver-related stress linked to diurnal salivary alpha-amylase rhythms
Diurnal Salivary Alpha-Amylase Dynamics Among Dementia Family Caregivers Author: Liu Y, et al (2016), Health Psychology. Objective: The study examined diurnal regulation of salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) in association with daily…
Salivary DNA Analysis
…Salimetrics protocol enables researchers to expand the scope of their studies by including specific genetic markers for genomic testing without the need for specialized collection devices, preservatives or complicated collection…
Salimetrics Expands Salivary Cytokine Testing Service for Fast, Easy Salivary Biomarker Analysis
…can now benefit from the latest offering in industry-leading salivary research tools with expanded Salivary Cytokine Testing from the Salimetrics SalivaLab. Today, the Salimetrics’ core four cytokine panel has been…
SBB – Is Your DLMO Keeping You Up At Night?
Drop Date: June 2015
In This Drop: Know your DLMO: Sleep disorder diagnosis and beyond
Salivary Stress Biomarkers as Tools for Determining Stress Adaptability and Resilience
…psychometric tests, saliva biomarkers, and computerized cognitive tests that used the Cambridge Neuropsychological Automated Test Battery. Participants were categorized based on initial biomarker measurements as being at low-, moderate-, or…
Salivary cortisol, prematurity and developmental implications
…reveal that at age 23 years, infants born premature with neurological complications showed higher cortisol reactivity to social evaluative threat compared to either full- term, small for gestation age, medically…
Salivary Interleukin-6 as a potential non-invasive biomarker for Huntington’s Disease progression
…HD patients as compared to premanifest patients and controls. The levels of salivary IL-6 were significantly correlated with each of the other salivary markers, as well as with IL-6 levels…
Salimetrics Launches Salivary Oxytocin Testing Service
(July 17, 2018) Salimetrics launches validated and optimized salivary oxytocin assay for researchers sending samples for testing to the Salimetrics SalivaLab. Today, Salimetrics’ strong bond with the salivary bioscience community…
Sex hormone variations in both sexes may be important when investigating stress physiology
…In summary, our results reveal that adjusting for sex hormones alters “sex-specific” reactive and diurnal cortisol profiles. View Abstract Keywords: Cortisol, estradiol, progesterone, sex differences, testosterone, trier social stress test…
Childhood maltreatment affects cortisol and alpha-amylase stress reactivity
…not well understood. METHOD: This study examined salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) in 26 maltreated (15 with current MDD) and 26 non-maltreated (17…
New Participant-Centric Saliva Collection Management System for Salivary Bioscience from Salimetrics Now in Development
…supplies available through Salimetrics, OnTimePoint™ manages the research workflow from receipt of collection supplies by the researcher, to when samples are tested by the Salimetrics’ SalivaLab, to the receipt of…
Salivary Cotinine Assay Determines Association between Second Hand Smoke and Caregiver Stress in Children
…high rates of second hand smoke (SHS) exposure. The objective was to examine whether SHS exposure is associated with symptom frequency in children with poorly controlled asthma. METHODS: Children were…
Salimetrics’ New Salivary Infectious Disease Research Tools: Total Immunoglobulin M (IgM) ELISA Kit
…assays. Saliva collection has been validated with SalivaBio’s oral fluid/saliva collection protocols and follows the same convenient and reproducible methods that SalivaBio has provided the scientific community for years. Salimetrics…
New Recommendations for Repeatability in Salivary Bioscience Data
…seven commonly assayed salivary measures in biobehavioral research – cortisol, alpha-amylase, c-reactive protein, interlekin-6, uric acid, secretory immunoglobulin A, and testosterone. We assess the sensitivity of rICC estimates to assay…