Saliva

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A combination of independent transcriptional regulators shapes bacterial virulence gene expression during infection. 
  • A day-centered approach to modeling cortisol: diurnal cortisol profiles and their associations among U.S. adults. 
  • A direct link between carbohydrate utilization and virulence in the major human pathogen group A Streptococcus. 
  • Accuracy of salivary estriol testing compared to traditional risk factor assessment in predicting preterm birth. 
  • Assessing daily stress processes in social surveys by combining stressor exposure and salivary cortisol. 
  • Association of Maternal and Infant Salivary Testosterone and Cortisol and Infant Gender With Mother-Infant Interaction in Very-Low-Birthweight Infants. 
  • Associations Between Hormonal Biomarkers and Cognitive, Motor, and Language Developmental Status in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. 
  • Associations of Maternal and Infant Testosterone and Cortisol Levels With Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Socioemotional Problems. 
  • Associations of cortisol/testosterone and cortisol/sex hormone-binding globulin ratios with atherosclerosis in middle-age women. 
  • Attenuation of store-operated Ca2+ current impairs salivary gland fluid secretion in TRPC1(-/-) mice. 
  • B-lymphocyte depletion ameliorates Sjögren's syndrome in Id3 knockout mice. 
  • Biobehavioral Responses of Preterm Infants to Conventional and Swaddled Tub Baths: A Randomized Crossover Trial. 
  • Bulimic adolescents benefit from massage therapy. 
  • Caries experience associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 
  • Characterization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in saliva and blood plasma by V3-specific heteroduplex tracking assay and genotype analyses. 
  • Characterization of the mucosal immune response to dietary antigens in patients with dermatitis herpetiformis. 
  • Child abuse, disruptive behavior disorders, depression, and salivary cortisol levels among institutionalized and community-residing boys in Mongolia. 
  • Childhood trauma and diurnal cortisol disruption in fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Cigarette smoking behavior in conjoined twins. 
  • Correlation between maternal and infant cortisol varies by breastfeeding status. 
  • Cortisol decreases and serotonin and dopamine increase following massage therapy. 
  • Cortisol levels and responses to mammography screening in breast cancer survivors: a pilot study. 
  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project. 
  • Cytokines as adjuvants for the induction of anti-human immunodeficiency virus peptide immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies in serum and mucosal secretions after nasal immunization. 
  • Defective cellular immunity associated with chronic mucocutaneous moniliasis and recurrent staphylococcal botryomycosis: immunological reconstitution by allogeneic bone marrow. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation of a nanobody with picomolar affinity toward the protease RgpB from Porphyromonas gingivalis. 
  • Different ontogenetic patterns of testosterone production reflect divergent male reproductive strategies in chimpanzees and bonobos. 
  • Disordered salivary immunoglobulin secretion and sodium transport in human chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Diurnal cortisol rhythm as a predictor of lung cancer survival. 
  • Do testosterone declines during the transition to marriage and fatherhood relate to men's sexual behavior? Evidence from the Philippines. 
  • Dominance, politics, and physiology: voters' testosterone changes on the night of the 2008 United States presidential election. 
  • Early childcare, executive functioning, and the moderating role of early stress physiology. 
  • Effect of amifostine on patient assessed clinical benefit in irradiated head and neck cancer. 
  • Effect of chronic stress associated with unemployment on salivary cortisol: overall cortisol levels, diurnal rhythm, and acute stress reactivity. 
  • Effect of orthodontic treatment on saliva, plaque and the levels of Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus. 
  • Emotional reactivity and parenting sensitivity interact to predict cortisol output in toddlers. 
  • Endogenous salivary inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus. 
  • Envelope diversity, coreceptor usage and syncytium-inducing phenotype of HIV-1 variants in saliva and blood during primary infection. 
  • Epidermal growth factor in saliva and serum of infants with necrotising enterocolitis. 
  • Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models. 
  • Ethnicity, education, and the cortisol response to awakening: a preliminary investigation. 
  • Evaluation of a saliva alcohol test stick as a therapeutic adjunct in an alcoholism treatment program. 
  • Expired air carbon monoxide and saliva thiocyanate: relationships to self-reports of marijuana and cigarette smoking. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. 
  • Factors from saliva and oral bacteria, chemotactic for polymorphonuclear leukocytes: their possible role in gingival inflammation. 
  • Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines. 
  • Genetic and hormonal sensitivity to threat: testing a serotonin transporter genotype × testosterone interaction. 
  • Graft versus host disease-related secretory immunoglobulin A deficiency in bone marrow transplant recipients. Findings in labial saliva. 
  • Granulomatous hepatitis associated with acute cytomegalovirus infection. 
  • Hepatitis B antigen in saliva, urine, and stool. 
  • Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales. 
  • Human antibody response to Anopheles gambiae saliva: an immuno-epidemiological biomarker to evaluate the efficacy of insecticide-treated nets in malaria vector control. 
  • Human antibody response to Anopheles saliva for comparing the efficacy of three malaria vector control methods in Balombo, Angola. 
  • Human antibody responses to the Anopheles salivary gSG6-P1 peptide: a novel tool for evaluating the efficacy of ITNs in malaria vector control. 
  • Hyper-excretion of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in saliva. 
  • Hyposalivation and xerostomia in dentate older adults. 
  • IgA in saliva of breast-fed and bottle-fed infants. 
  • Immunoreactive substance P in human saliva. A possible marker of chronic pain. 
  • Immunoreactive substance P is decreased in saliva of patients with chronic back pain syndromes. 
  • Increased peanut-specific IgA levels in saliva correlate with food challenge outcomes after peanut sublingual immunotherapy. 
  • Influence of intravenous amifostine on xerostomia, tumor control, and survival after radiotherapy for head-and- neck cancer: 2-year follow-up of a prospective, randomized, phase III trial. 
  • Investigation of copper-manganese-nickel alloys for dental purposes. 
  • Maternal intimate partner violence exposure, child cortisol reactivity and child asthma. 
  • Measurement of in vivo corrosion rates in baboons, and correlation with in vitro tests. 
  • Mecamylamine acutely increases human intravenous nicotine self-administration. 
  • Medication adherence in the MTA: saliva methylphenidate samples versus parent report and mediating effect of concomitant behavioral treatment. 
  • Methodological considerations for the quantification of self-reported caffeine use. 
  • Mid-life stress is associated with both up- and down-regulation of markers of humoral and cellular immunity. 
  • Mitochondrial resequencing arrays detect tumor-specific mutations in salivary rinses of patients with head and neck cancer. 
  • Mobile contingency management as an adjunctive treatment for co-morbid cannabis use disorder and cigarette smoking. 
  • Molecular characterization of group A Streptococcus maltodextrin catabolism and its role in pharyngitis. 
  • Momentary relationship between cortisol secretion and symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia. 
  • Monitoring lithium dose levels: estimation of lithium in blood and other body fluids. 
  • Natural history of postnatal rhesus cytomegalovirus shedding by dams and acquisition by infant rhesus monkeys. 
  • Neuroactive steroids, negative affect, and nicotine dependence severity in male smokers. 
  • Operational Assessment of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets by Using an Anopheles Salivary Biomarker of Human-Vector Contact. 
  • Oral immunogenicity of the plant proteinase bromelain. 
  • Oral nicotine solution for smoking cessation: a pilot tolerability study. 
  • Origin of pleural fluid amylase in esophageal rupture. 
  • Parotid gland sparing in patients undergoing bilateral head and neck irradiation: techniques and early results. 
  • Patterns of salivary cortisol secretion in pregnancy and implications for assessment protocols. 
  • Positive affect is associated with cardiovascular reactivity, norepinephrine level, and morning rise in salivary cortisol. 
  • Precessation treatment with nicotine skin patch facilitates smoking cessation. 
  • Predictors and patterns of participant adherence to a cortisol collection protocol. 
  • Psychological and biological markers of stress and bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women. 
  • Pyrroline-5-carboxylate in human plasma. 
  • Qualitative and quantitative studies of Gc (vitamin D-binding protein) in normal subjects and patients with periodontal disease. 
  • Randomized clinical trial of bright light therapy for antepartum depression: preliminary findings. 
  • Relational victimization, friendship, and adolescents' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to an in vivo social stressor. 
  • Religiosity may help preserve the cortisol rhythm in women with stress-related illness. 
  • Safety and immunogenicity of an HIV-1 recombinant canarypox vaccine in newborns and infants of HIV-1-infected women. 
  • Saliva nicotine as an index of plasma levels in nicotine skin patch users. 
  • Salivary estradiol and testosterone in Filipino men: Diurnal patterns and relationships with adiposity. 
  • Salivary hormone response to 12-week block-periodized training in naval special warfare operators. 
  • Salivary testosterone and a trinucleotide (CAG) length polymorphism in the androgen receptor gene predict amygdala reactivity in men. 
  • Seasonal variation of salivary testosterone in men, normally cycling women, and women using hormonal contraceptives. 
  • Secondhand smoke is associated with more frequent hospitalizations in children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Secretory immune response in patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma. 
  • Sense of humor, childhood cancer stressors, and outcomes of psychosocial adjustment, immune function, and infection. 
  • Serial salivary estriol to detect an increased risk of preterm birth. 
  • Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures. 
  • Stress and body shape: stress-induced cortisol secretion is consistently greater among women with central fat. 
  • Stress and placental resistance measured by Doppler ultrasound in early and mid-pregnancy. 
  • Stress questionnaires and stress biomarkers during pregnancy. 
  • Stress, cortisol, and externalizing behavior in adolescent males: an examination in the context of multisystemic therapy. 
  • Stress-system genes and life stress predict cortisol levels and amygdala and hippocampal volumes in children. 
  • Stressful politics: voters' cortisol responses to the outcome of the 2008 United States Presidential election. 
  • Stressors and mood measured on a momentary basis are associated with salivary cortisol secretion. 
  • Systemic administration of an HIV-1 broadly neutralizing dimeric IgA yields mucosal secretory IgA and virus neutralization. 
  • Testosterone responses to competition predict decreased trust ratings of emotionally neutral faces. 
  • The dynamics of herpesvirus and polyomavirus reactivation and shedding in healthy adults: a 14-month longitudinal study. 
  • The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral blood flow: How much caffeine can we tolerate? 
  • The effect of zinc deficiency and food restriction on prostaglandin E2 and thromboxane B2 in saliva and plasma of rats. 
  • The effect on the accuracy of polysulphide impression material after treating preparations with various agents. 
  • The effects of intranasal oxytocin on reward circuitry responses in children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • The effects of neurokinin A, neurokinin B, and eledoisin on substance P analysis. 
  • The effects of race-related stress on cortisol reactivity in the laboratory: implications of the Duke lacrosse scandal. 
  • The oral microbiome in health and disease and the potential impact on personalized dental medicine. 
  • The predictive value of elevated labial saliva sodium concentration: its relation to labial gland pathology in bone marrow transplant recipients. 
  • The stress of stigma: exploring the effect of weight stigma on cortisol reactivity. 
  • Three months in the symptom life of a teenage girl undergoing treatment for cancer. 
  • Transdermal administration of nicotine. 
  • Transdermal nicotine attenuates depression symptoms in nonsmokers: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Transdermal nicotine reduces cigarette craving and nicotine preference. 
  • Transdermal nicotine replacement in pregnancy: maternal pharmacokinetics and fetal effects. 
  • Use of on-site testing for drugs of abuse. 
  • Variability in emotional responsiveness and coping style during active avoidance as a window onto psychological vulnerability to stress. 
  • Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus transmission and effect on pathogenesis. 
  • Zinc, magnesium, copper, and protein concentrations in human saliva: age- and sex-related differences.