Salivary alpha-amylase as a stress biomarker in diseased dogs

Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) is a stress biomarker in human diseases, but there are no reports of sAA measurements in diseased dogs. This study measured the sAA and serum alpha-amylase (AA) levels in 16 healthy dogs and 31 diseased dogs using a kinetic enzyme assay to assess the stress status. The s...

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Autores principales: Hong, Hwa-Ran, Oh, Ye-In, Kim, Young Jun, Seo, Kyoung-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Veterinary Science 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565889
http://dx.doi.org/10.4142/jvs.2019.20.e46
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Sumario:Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) is a stress biomarker in human diseases, but there are no reports of sAA measurements in diseased dogs. This study measured the sAA and serum alpha-amylase (AA) levels in 16 healthy dogs and 31 diseased dogs using a kinetic enzyme assay to assess the stress status. The sAA and serum AA levels were significantly higher in the diseased dogs than in healthy dogs (p < 0.05), but there was no correlation between the 2 groups (r = 0.251, p = 0.089). This suggests that sAA can be useful as a stress biomarker in diseased dogs.

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