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Low Salivary Alpha-Amylase Awakening Response Associated with Reduced Professional Efficacy
…to predict worker engagement and exhaustion, yet to our knowledge, research has not been conducted that assesses the JD-R model with physiological indicators of chronic stress and burnout. Using the…
In Memoriam: Dr. Mark Laudenslager
…of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus passed on Friday, December 4th, 2020 due to medical complications from an ongoing condition. This week we mourn the loss of a life-long supporter of…
Salivary DLMO Assessment Kit from Salimetrics: Clinical Utility from Easy At-Home or In-Clinic Sample Collections for Sleep Patients
(June 29, 2022) In support of the quest for better sleep, Salimetrics launches a new Circadian Phase Assessment Kit to accurately measure Dim Light Melatonin Onset (DLMO) using saliva. This…
Salivary testosterone / salivary cortisol ratio may predict a team player’s social popularity
…The sample size consisted of 41 male rugby athletes from Burnaby, Canada. Using social network analysis (SNA), three measures of centrality were investigated: popularity (i.e., the number of incoming ties…
Sympathetic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal asymmetry in generalized anxiety disorder
…or the other. Using a ratio of salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) over salivary cortisol, the present study examined symmetry between the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and HPA axis in individuals with…
Salivary cortisol and the effects of child care on development in high & low risk contexts
…and physiologically—likely differ between children from high- versus low-risk contexts. Using 1,155 participant data from the Family Life Project, the authors tested (a) whether within- and between-child differences in children’s…
Salimetrics’ Team Supports NIH Funded SARS-CoV-2 Post-Vaccination Study of Women’s Health
A new study seeks to investigate SARS CoV-2 vaccine effects on menstruation in female adolescents using salivary bioscience with the support of Salimetrics. While the current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are considered…
Latent Trait Cortisol level reflects accumulation of both distal and recent forms of stress
…alters such indicators is unknown. Using objective contextual stress interviews with adolescent girls and their mothers, we examined the impact of recent acute and chronic stress occurring during the past…
Salivary cortisol and oxytocin related to reduced youth anxiety through novel interventions, such as equine-assisted adaptive riding program
…is manualized, and includes five core CBT components: in vivo exposure, cognitive restructuring, youth psychoeducation, relaxation, and caregiver psychoeducation about anxiety. This study extended findings from a prior RCT that…
Sex hormone variations in both sexes may be important when investigating stress physiology
…that women have higher morning cortisol. Correlations using area under the curve formulae revealed intriguing sex-specific associations with progesterone in men and testosterone in women that we propose have implications…
Children’s Saliva Collection Swab Device Training (SCS)
…easy way? Watch this video where Marci from Salimetrics demonstrates how to collect saliva samples using the SalivaBio’s Children’s Swab (SCS) and how to place the SCS in the Swab…
Salivary SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay: A practical alternative for screening and monitoring vaccine antibody response and seroprevalence.
…non-invasive sampling method for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. However, data comparing performance of salivary tests against commercially-available serologic and neutralizing antibody (nAb) assays are lacking. This study compared the…
Latent trait salivary cortisol & stress-related cardiovascular risk factors
Salivary latent trait cortisol (LTC): Relation to lipids, blood pressure, and body composition in middle childhood Author: Yeung EW, et al (2016), Psychoneuroendocrinology. Adversity experienced early in life has the…
High prestige in social groups increases salivary testosterone levels in men
…effects of previous experiences of prestige-assessed using community-wide nominations of talent and advice provision-on intraindividual changes in testosterone in a large-scale naturalistic community. Results revealed that men who achieve high…
Non-invasive oral fluid immunoassay for hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection
…(HEV) infection causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among pregnant women. In clinical settings blood-based testing protocols are commonly used to diagnose HEV infection, but in community settings such…