Saliva in Health and Disease: The Present and Future of a Unique Sample for Diagnosis by Asta Tvarijonaviciute
English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 326 Pages | ISBN : 303037680X | 9 MB
Saliva as a unique sample for health assessment is gaining attention among researchers of different fields in the last 20 years; being reflected in an impressive increase in the number of papers published studying saliva from different biological aspects in human and veterinary species. Once deemed merely a digestive juice is now considered a biological fluid capable of communicating information about physiopathological processes occurring in organisms, since saliva has been shown to contain molecular and bacterial compounds that can change in response to local and systemic pathologies.