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Learn from the experts: “Salivary Bioscience Foundations of Interdisciplinary Saliva Research and Applications”
April 14, 2020(April 14, 2020) This new reference guide, featuring valuable contributions from leading experts and Salimetrics researchers, is the first comprehensive overview of salivary bioscience and its use in basic, applied, and clinical research with a core focus on salivary gland anatomy, research and diagnostic methods, collection, analysis, and interpretation of salivary data. Foundations also covers [...]
Husbandry Conditions May Impact Equine Welfare
April 3, 2020Effects of breed, management and personality on cortisol reactivity in sport horses. Author: Sauer FJ, et al. ( 2019), PLoS one. ABSTRACT: Sport horses need to fulfill high physical and psychological requirements during training and competition. These as well as certain conditions of modern husbandry may affect their wellbeing. Here we aimed to (1) evaluate […]
Salimetrics’ Growing List of Cytokines Which Can Be Reliably Tested in Saliva Now Includes IL-17A, IL-5, and IL-7 for Fast, Easy Salivary Biomarker Analysis
April 1, 2020(April 1, 2020) Salimetrics brings better methods to cytokine research with the addition of 3 new analytes, IL-5, IL-7, and IL-17A, which can now be reliably measured in saliva. These new cytokine tests are available as part of the Salimetrics SalivaLab’s Extended Cytokine Panel. Now, up to 12 prominent cytokines that regulate chronic and acute [...]
Douglas Granger selected as Faculty Innovation Fellow
March 9, 2020UCI Beall Applied Innovation names IISBR director as inaugural fellow Douglas A. Granger, director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research and Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological Science, has been selected as one of UCI’s inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellows by the university’s Beall Applied Innovation. The two-year appointment comes with a $5,000 stipend, and Granger […]
How to Collect the Best Saliva Samples for Saliva Testing
March 6, 2020(March 6, 2020) SalivaBio’s Saliva Collection Aid, exclusively from Salimetrics, is the gold standard for saliva collection. The Saliva Collection Aid simplifies the collection of saliva bio-specimens, reduces participant burden, increases compliance and delivers an ideal sample for testing. The Saliva Collection Aid (SCA), exclusively available through Salimetrics, is a medical device used to facilitate [...]
Salivary Oxytocin Featured on Netflix’s Docuseries “Babies”
March 2, 2020Salivary Oxytocin was recently featured in Netflix’s newly released docuseries “Babies” – currently trending. One segment in the series highlights the effect babies have on motherhood and fatherhood through salivary oxytocin levels. World renowned expert Ruth Feldman, Ph.D., Simms-Mann Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlia with joint appointment at Yale […]
Salimetrics Launches New Salivary Human Total Immunoglobulin G (IgG) ELISA Kit to Support Multidisciplinary Investigators in Serological Studies
January 28, 2020(January 28, 2020) A multi-functional Salivary Total Human IgG ELISA Kit critical to research for sample qualification where oral fluid is used in serological and infectious disease research is now available to investigators. This flexible salivary assay kit provides a much-needed measure of total IgG a means to quantify and index a salivary sample used [...]
Child Maltreatment Impacts Diurnal Cortisol
January 14, 2020Child Maltreatment and Mother-Child Transmission of Stress Physiology Author: Hibel LC, et al. (2019), Child Maltreatment. ABSTRACT: Background Advancing understanding of the developmental origins of neuroendocrine-immune (NEI) functioning is key to elucidating the biological mechanisms involved in health and disease risk across the lifespan. This study examined whether prenatal maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity moderates child […]
Prenatal Maternal HPA Activity May Moderate NEI Functioning in Young Children
November 26, 2019Long-Term Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Cortisol and Child Neuroendocrine-Immune Regulation Author: Riis J, et al. (2019), International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. ABSTRACT: Background Advancing understanding of the developmental origins of neuroendocrine-immune (NEI) functioning is key to elucidating the biological mechanisms involved in health and disease risk across the lifespan. This study examined whether prenatal maternal […]
Salimetrics Releases New Salivary Osteocalcin Test to Support Interdisciplinary Research
November 7, 2019(November 7, 2019) A new Salimetrics' SalivaLab test is now available for investigators to expand discovery in Salivary Bioscience. Osteocalcin (OCN, OC), also known as Bone Gamma-Carboxyglutamic Acid-Containing Protein (BGLAP), is a novel biomarker that researchers have linked to stress, sports performance, metabolic regulation, brain development, cognition, and periodontitis. Today, Salimetrics' SalivaLab released a Salivary [...]