Correction: Intensive longitudinal modelling predicts diurnal activity of salivary alpha-amylase

Influence of Cigarette Smoking on the Activity of Salivary Alpha-Amylase

Introduction: Tobacco smoke is involved in the pathogenesis of several diseases in different body systems. Saliva is the first body fluid that confront inhaled cigarette smoke which is injurious to the oral cavity and is associated with several oral diseases and cancer. The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of smoking on the activity of alpha-amylase in the saliva of healthy smoker...

Salivary Alpha-Amylase Activity, a New Biomarker in Heart Failure?

Stress affects salivary alpha-Amylase activity in bonobos.

Salivary alpha-Amylase (sAA) is a starch digesting enzyme. In addition to its function in the context of nutrition, sAA has also turned out to be useful for monitoring sympathetic nervous system activity. Recent studies on humans have found a relationship between intra-individual changes in sAA activity and physical and psychological stress. In studies on primates and other vertebrates, non-inv...

SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASE DURING PREGNANCY 1 Running title: SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASE DURING PREGNANCY Salivary alpha-amylase during pregnancy: Diurnal course and associations with obstetric history, maternal demographics and mood

Diurnal patterns of salivary alpha amylase (sAA) in pregnant women have not previously been described. The current study employed ecological momentary assessment to examine the association between the diurnal sAA, obstetric history, maternal demographics, and mood during pregnancy. Saliva was self-collected by 83 pregnant women (89% White, age 25.3-43.0 years; mean gestational age 21.9 weeks, r...

effects of some alpha-amylase inhibitors on the salivary alpha-amylase activity of the stripped bug, graphosoma lineatum (heteroptera: scutelleridae)

abstract digestive enzyme inhibitors are proteinacious or nonproteinacious compounds which reduce an enzyme activity through attaching to its active site and/or its substrate. nowadays, plant enzyme inhibitors are of great importance because 1) these have considerable effects on insect digestive enzymes and as a result on their development; and 2) the transgenic plants expressing them are safe....