Kacper Nijakowski, MD, PhD

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Interests: Salivary diagnostics in oral and systemic diseases; Salivary biomarkers (antioxidants and cytokines); Bidirectional relationship between oral and systemic health; Biologic therapy in inflammatory bowel diseases; Biostatistical analyses
Mateusz Maciejczyk, PhD, PharmD

Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

Interests: salivary antioxidants and oxidative stress; salivary gland dysfunction; protein glycoxidation and nitrosative stress; salivary; blood and urine redox biomarkers; mitochondrial dysfunction; redox homeostasis; inflammation and apoptosis in metabolic diseases; neurodegeneration; immunodeficiency and cancer; effects of diet on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress; antioxidant activity of drugs and dietary supplements

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Saliva contains numerous enzymes, hormones and antibodies, which reflect their blood serum composition. Saliva is collected non-invasively, eliminating the stress that often accompanies patients during routine blood collection. In contrast to blood drawing, collecting saliva is safe and easy, even for less qualified medical personnel.

Saliva, as a diagnostic material, has so far been used mainly to monitor oral diseases (caries or periodontitis). Its is now increasingly being used to monitor systemic health. Currently, studies of saliva as an alternative to blood and urine in medical diagnostics, has focused on detecting various biomarkers (proteins, nucleic acids, metabolites etc.) that may become potential prognostic indicators for the diagnosis and treatment of selected systemic diseases. Saliva could have a wide range of diagnostic applications in many fields of medicine, such as gastroenterology, endocrinology, cardiology and oncology.

In this Special Issue, we invite you to submit your high-quality papers (original articles, systematic reviews) focusing on non-invasive salivary diagnostics in both oral and systemic diseases.

Prof. Kacper Nijakowski and Prof. Mateusz Maciejczyk
Guest Editors

Keywords

saliva

biomarker

oxidative stress

inflammation

oral disease

systemic disease

diagnosis

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 2500 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.

Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) Print ISSN 2768-6701 Electronic ISSN 2768-6698