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

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...

PM482. SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASE (sAA) AS A BIOMARKER FOR THE RESPONSE OF THERAPY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS

s | 75 Methods: International, multicenter, retrospective, observational study. Outcomes presented are patient characteristics, reason for PP initiation and hospitalization data. Results: 84 patients were analyzed: Mean age (years) at first psychotic episode was 23.8(SD2.6), 23.9(SD2.6) at first antipsychotic treatment and 24.1(SD2.7, range 19–29) at PP initiation. Time between first antipsycho...

Is Salivary Alpha Amylase Useful as a Biomarker of Stress in Oral Diseases?

Although Salivary Alpha Amylase (SAA) has been investigated during past thirty years as a biomarker of stress, still remains certain doubt regarding its utility. Additionally, there has been a lot of debate whether SAA reflects sympathetic activity solely, however, recent data suggested that this is unlikely due to the parasympathetic activity which innervates salivary glands whose product is S...

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...