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Salivary proteome of a Neotropical primate: potential roles in host defense and oral food perception [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background Saliva contains a very complex mixture of proteins for defense against microbiological pathogens and for oral food perception. Howler monkeys are Neotropical primates that can consume a mostly leaf diet. They are well known to thrive in highly
Fabiola Carolina Espinosa-Gómez, Eliel Ruíz-May, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Colin A. Chapman   +3 more
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Salivary Proteins, Enzymes and Immune Factors Associated With Early Childhood Caries: A Narrative Review

Journal of Pediatrics Review, 2022
Background: Early Childhood Caries (ECC) has many etiologies such as families’ socioeconomic status, parents’ education and awareness, prolonged and improper bottle or breastfeeding, consuming sweet foods and high-sugar diets, brushing techniques ...
Negareh Salehabadi, Aaryousha Moallem Savasari, Azam Nahvi   +2 more
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Las glándulas salivales de dos flebotominos vectores de Leishmania: Lutzomyia migonei (França) y Lutzomyia ovallesi (Ortiz) (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2010
Introducción. La leishmaniasis es una enfermedad transmitida por la inoculación intradérmica de promastigotes de Leishmania (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) junto con la saliva del vector durante la picada de un flebotomino infectado.
Elsa Nieves, Neudo Buelvas, Maritza Rondón, Néstor González   +3 more
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Top-Down Proteomics of Human Saliva Highlights Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, and Antimicrobial Defense Responses in Alzheimer Disease

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly, characterized by accumulation in the brain of misfolded proteins, inflammation, and oxidative damage leading to neuronal cell death.
Cristina Contini, Alessandra Olianas, Simone Serrao, Carla Deriu, Federica Iavarone, Federica Iavarone, Mozhgan Boroumand, Alessandra Bizzarro, Alessandra Lauria, Gavino Faa, Massimo Castagnola, Irene Messana, Barbara Manconi, Carlo Masullo, Tiziana Cabras   +14 more
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Novel Peptide Marker Corresponding to Salivary Protein gSG6 Potentially Identifies Exposure to Anopheles Bites

PLoS ONE, 2008
In order to improve malaria control, and under the aegis of WHO recommendations, many efforts are being devoted to developing new tools for identifying geographic areas with high risk of parasite transmission. Evaluation of the human antibody response to arthropod salivary proteins could be an epidemiological indicator of exposure to vector bites, and ...
Poinsignon, Anne, Cornélie, Sylvie, Mestres-Simon, Montserrat, Lanfrancotti, Alessandra, Rossignol, Marie, Boulanger, Denis, Cisse, Badara, Sokhna, Cheikh, Arcà, Bruno, Simondon, François, Remoue, Franck   +10 more
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Engineered Salivary Peptides Reduce Enamel Demineralization Provoked by Cariogenic S. mutans Biofilm

Microorganisms, 2022
Engineering of the acquired enamel pellicle using salivary peptides has been shown to be a promising anticaries strategy. However, the mechanisms by which these peptides protect teeth against tooth decay are not fully understood.
Lina Maria Marin, Yizhi Xiao, Jaime Aparecido Cury, Walter Luiz Siqueira   +3 more
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Long-Term Oral Administration of LLHK, LHK, and HK Alters Gene Expression Profile and Restores Age-Dependent Atrophy and Dysfunction of Rat Salivary Glands

Biomedicines, 2020
Xerostomia, also known as dry mouth, is caused by a reduction in salivary secretion and by changes in the composition of saliva associated with the malfunction of salivary glands. Xerostomia decreases quality of life.
Yasuko Ishikawa, Tomasz D Pieczonka, Aneta M Bragiel-Pieczonka, Harumichi Seta, Tadahiro Ohkuri, Yumi Sasanuma, Yuji Nonaka   +6 more
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Secretion of protein from salivary glands in the ferret in response to vasoactive intestinal peptide.

The Journal of Physiology, 1989
1. Secretory responses of ferret parotid and submandibular glands were investigated in the presence of muscarinic, alpha‐ and beta‐adrenoceptor blocking agents. 2. In pentobarbitone‐anaesthetized animals I.V. doses of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) failed to elicit overt secretion of saliva from either gland. 3.
J, Ekström, G, Tobin
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Innate Antimicrobial Defense of Skin and Oral Mucosa

Antibiotics, 2020
This special issue intends to review and update our understanding of the antimicrobial defense mechanisms of the skin and oral cavity. These two environments are quite different in terms of water, pH, and nutrient availability, but have some common ...
Philip W. Wertz, Sarah de Szalay
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Association of salivary alpha-2-macroglobulin with glycemia and glycated hemoglobin in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis study

São Paulo Medical Journal, 2022
BACKGROUND: Chronically elevated alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2MG) in the blood has been correlated with diabetes and the HbA1c profile; however, no systematic review has been conducted to evaluate the association of A2MG salivary levels and glycemia or HbA1c
Douglas Carvalho Caixeta, Pedro Rogério Camargos Pennisi, Douglas Vieira Moura, Marjorie Adriane Costa Nunes, Foued Salmen Espindola, Cauane Blumenberg, Luiz Renato Paranhos, Robinson Sabino-Silva   +7 more
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