Omics Sciences for Salivary Diagnostics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2024) | Viewed by 20084
Special Issue Editors
Interests: proteomics; mass spectrometry; biomarker discovery; PTMs characterization; saliva
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Interests: proteomics; biomarker discovery; mass spectrometry; post-translational modifications; salivary proteomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, saliva has arisen as a biological matrix with huge potential beyond its applications in oral health. It is an incredibly complex biofluid which plays a critical role in normal human physiology and pathology. There has been long-standing interest in saliva for its uses in non-invasive biomarker discovery, human health monitoring, human microbiome analysis, and, more recently, for disease surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Saliva omics is a field with broad profiling that includes, but is not limited to, proteomics and metabolomics, transcriptomics, extracellular vesicle profiling, miRNAs, salivary microbiomes and meta-proteomics.
This Special Issue plans to offer an overview of recent advances in omics technologies in diverse areas of salivary biomedical research, with special emphasis on proteomics-based biomarker discovery. Since the analysis of proteoforms, as biochemical indicators of health or disease, has a longstanding history in biomedical research, descriptions of Post-Translational Modifications of salivary proteins are also welcome.
For this Issue, we invite you and your colleagues to submit an original research article or comprehensive review article related to this field.
Dr. Barbara Manconi
Dr. Tiziana Cabras
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- saliva
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- metaproteomics
- microbiomics
- transcriptomics
- mass-spectrometry
- biomarkers
- PTMs
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