The pursuit of timely, cost-effective, accurate, and noninvasive diagnostic methodologies is
an endeavor of urgency among clinicians and scientists alike. Detecting pathologies at their …

Within the past 10years, the use of saliva as a diagnostic tool has gained considerable
attention and become a well-accepted method. As a diagnostic fluid, saliva offers superiority …

Recently a textile azo dye processing plant effluent was identified as one of the sources of
mutagenic activity detected in the Cristais River, a drinking water source in Brazil [GA …

In periodontics and implant dentistry, traditional clinical criteria are often insufficient for
determining sites of active disease, for monitoring quantitatively the response to therapy or …

Saliva, like other bodily fluids, has been used to monitor human health and disease. This
study tests the hypothesis that informative human mRNA exists in cell-free saliva. If present …

The micronuclei assay (MA) in exfoliated buccal cells is an innovative genotoxicity
technique, which holds promise for the study of epithelial carcinogens. Micronuclei are …

Biological monitoring (BM or biomonitoring) deals with the assessment of individual human
exposure, effect and susceptibility to occupational risk factors. It is a fundamental tool in …

The field of molecular epidemiology is very promising, as sophisticated techniques are
being developed to address etiology, genetic susceptibility and mechanisms for induction of …

In this work, an attempt was made to determine a group of lung cancer biomarkers. For this
study, breath samples collected from 137 patients with confirmed lung cancer were analyzed …

The use of Raman spectroscopy combined with saliva is an exciting emerging spectroscopy-
biofluid combination. In this review, we summarize current methods employed in such …