Salivary Metabolomics for Oral and Systemic Diseases
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Advances in Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 15611
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oral diseases; oral cancer; salivary metabolites; metabolomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Saliva is an important biological fluid and a valuable source of biological information. Saliva contains many of the same components that can be found in blood or serum, but the components of interest tend to be at a lower concentration in saliva, and their analysis demands more sensitive techniques. Metabolomics is starting to emerge as a viable method for assessing the salivary metabolites which are generated by the process of metabolism in elucidating the pathways underlying different oral and systemic diseases. Although saliva collection is non-invasive and the handling and preparation of saliva samples for metabolomic analysis is relatively simple, very few salivary studies have been published using metabolomics technologies as compared to other biofluids. Therefore, this Special Issue “Salivary Metabolomics for Oral and Systemic Diseases” will be dedicated to the use of metabolomics in salivary research. Specific areas of this Special Issue include but are not limited to analytical protocols of salivary sample preparation and analysis, and the identification of salivary biomarkers for oral or systemic diseases and for treatment monitoring.
Prof. Dr. Arja Kullaa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Metabolomics
- Salivary metabolites
- Oral diseases
- Oral cancer
- Periodontal diseases
- Oral microbiome
- Systemic diseases
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