In recent studies of equine stereotypic behaviour, data on levels of cortisol and beta-endorphin Ž . BE have been limited and sometimes contradictory. The current research aimed to investigate, in a large number of horses, the relationships between these compounds and equine stereotypic Ž . behaviour. Plasma and salivary cortisol levels were measured in stereotypic ns46 and normal Ž . horses ns...

AIM To evaluate the effects of almost continuous skin-to-skin contact (SSC) on salivary cortisol, parental stress, parental depression, and breastfeeding. STUDY DESIGN This is a randomised study engaging families of late preterm infants (32-35 weeks gestation). Salivary cortisol reactivity was measured in infants during a nappy change at one month corrected age, and in infants and mothers dur...

BACKGROUND Although several variables have been studied as a possible predictor for the efficacy of ECT, results regarding hypercortisolism have been inconsistent. This prospective study evaluates the relation between pre-treatment cortisol levels and the efficacy of ECT in a population of drug-free inpatients with severe major depression. METHODS At the inpatient depression unit, 18 patients...

Salivary cortisol and secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) are important biomarkers for environmental and public health research. The present study investigated the diurnal variations of these salivary biomarkers, with a focus on the change of distribution characteristics (i.e., skewness and kurtosis) of the concentrations. The participants in this study were 113 healthy young males. Salivary sam...

Venipuncture is expensive, invasive and impractical for many sport science and clinical based settings. Salivary free cortisol is often cited as a non-invasive practical alternative. However, when cortisol concentrations exceed the corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG) point of 500nmol·L a lack of agreement between salivary and venous blood cortisol have been found. Alternatively, capillary blo...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine the effect of music therapy on patients suffering dental anxiety. In addition, a second objective was to determine the correlation between salivary cortisol and other physiologic parameters. METHODS 34 patients were randomly assigned to the control group and the experimental group. For each patient was measured for salivary cortisol, stimula...

OBJECTIVE Analysis of salivary cortisol concentrations and derived indices is increasingly used in clinical and scientific medicine. However, comprehensive data on these parameters in the general population are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the concentrations of salivary cortisol in a large middle-aged community sample and to identify major factors associated with altered hormon...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to clarify the effect of different chewing rates on salivary cortisol levels as a stress indicator. METHODS The subject group consisted of 16 healthy males. They were required to rest for 30 min, and then given arithmetic calculations to perform for 30 min as stress loading. Immediately after, the first set of saliva specimens (S1) was collected over a pe...

To prove the clinical usefulness of cortisol measurements in saliva for the exact assessment of a patient's corticoid status under therapeutic hormone substitution, we measured simultaneously total cortisol in serum and non-protein-bound cortisol in saliva after administration of different forms of hydrocortisone (cortisol) in eight cortisol-suppressed, healthy male volunteers. The intravenous ...

Objective: To test the hypothesis that cortisol elimination from plasma can contribute to relatively low cortisol in premenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Twelve premenopausal female patients with RA (39.8 (1.8) years) and nine healthy control women matched for age and body mass index (42 (3.3) years) were enrolled in the study. None of the patients had previously been re...