BACKGROUND Over the past 10 years, the use of saliva as a diagnostic fluid has gained
attention and has become a translational research success story. Some of the current …

Saliva is a clinically informative, biologic fluid (biofluid) that is useful for novel approaches to
prognosis, laboratory or clinical diagnosis, and monitoring and management of patients with …

Oral Diseases (2011) 17, 345–354 For the past two decades, salivary diagnostic
approaches have been developed to monitor oral diseases such as periodontal diseases …

Recent advancements in mass spectrometric proteomics provide a promising result in
utilizing saliva to explore biomarkers for diagnostic purposes. However, the issues of …

Early detection of oral squamous cell cancer (OSCC) is the key to improve the low 5-year
survival rate. Using proteomic and genomic technologies we have previously discovered …

The presence of extracellular circulating or cell-free RNA in biological fluids is becoming a
promising diagnostic tool for non invasive and cost effective cancer detection. Extracellular …

Introduction A growing interest has arisen in salivary proteomics as a tool for the
identification of biomarkers for primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Nonetheless, only a …

Early detection of disease plays a crucial role in successful therapy. Early diagnosis and
management reduces the severity and possible complications of the disease process. To …

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a chronic, progressive autoimmune disease primarily affecting
women. Diagnosis of SS requires an invasive salivary gland tissue biopsy and a long delay …

Objective. DNA microarray analysis and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) were performed to identify key target genes in peripheral blood from patients with …