Why the study?
Does salivary alpha-amylase activity increase in response to acute psychosocial stress and correlate with sympathoadrenal medullary system activity?
Population
Subjects undergoing acute psychosocial stress testing (specific demographics and sample size not stated)
Design
Other
Authors
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May support alpha-amylase as noninvasive stress biomarker; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Does salivary alpha-amylase activity increase in response to acute psychosocial stress and correlate with sympathoadrenal medullary system activity?
Salivary alpha-amylase may serve as a noninvasive, easy-to-use biomarker for sympathoadrenal medullary system activity during stress.
Rohleder et al. (2004) studied this question.
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