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explore their relationship to pubertal development, with secondary objectives of investigating the effect of sample collection time and the stability of the long-term storage of the samples for measuring the sex steroids in saliva. Methods Study
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). However, salivary cortisol may be falsely elevated due to preanalytical errors including liquorice consumption and contamination with dermal hydrocortisone or blood in the saliva sample ( 11 , 12 , 13 ). Salivary cortisone might be less sensitive to
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Introduction Saliva is a useful sample as a source of hormones for the diagnosis of different diseases, particularly in pediatric patients and aged individuals; the collection of saliva offers a noninvasive and stress-free alternative compared to
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-reactivity and interference, especially in the lower range of measurements ( 9 , 10 ). Saliva cortisol (sa-cortisol) drawn at late night is commonly used in the diagnostics of overt CS, but is not found useful to reveal low graded cortisol overproduction. Sa
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amylase by the salivary glands (8, 9, 10, 11) . Simple sampling procedures of saliva make salivary alpha amylase a useful non-invasive measure of the SAM system activity (12) . Further advantages of salivary alpha amylase include its concentration being
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assess the adequacy of conv-HC in AI ( 13 , 14 ). Furthermore, recently some authors reported that cortisone (E) measurement in saliva could be used to exclude GC contamination ( 15 , 16 ). Therefore, our aim was to study the F and E rhythm with
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to eat or brush their teeth in a period of 30 min before collection. Samples were centrifuged at 2682 g for 10 min, after which the synthetic swab was removed and collected saliva was stored at −20°C until further analysis. Deuterated internal
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for 5min. Next, the committee asked the children to serially subtract numbers out loud. On every failure, the committee interfered, stating ‘That is incorrect. Please start from the beginning’. Saliva collection In order to capture both DHEA
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. Salivary cortisone can be reliably measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) ( 7 ). There is no evidence of 11B-HSD2 activity in collected saliva. Therefore, measurement of salivary cortisone is particularly useful when
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school and included anthropometric measurements, self-rated pubertal status, and saliva and urine samples, which were collected between 10:00 and 16:00 h. Additional information about the methods and measures can be found in the Supplementary Methods file