"In a recent study, Granger and scientists at the University of Oregon tracked the release of nerve growth factor in saliva (sNGF), finding for the first time that this protein – typically linked to the survival, development or function of neurons – may be an important player in understanding the body's response to stress.
"So far," says Heidemarie Laurent, lead author and assistant professor of psychology with the University of Oregon, "sNGF appears to represent a unique facet of the way a person responds to acute stress, with individual differences in sNGF related to both short-term and more lasting measures of psychological health. Most importantly, sNGF appears to be related to resilience rather than risk."...
"It wasn't until the early 1990s that salivary bioscience emerged as a subfield."...
"The group's potentially landmark findings were published on Sept. 27 in Psychosomatic Medicine. It is the first of a series of papers related to sNGF and its benefits in the study of social relationships and behavior.
"One of the things that makes sNGF so different is that it is related to positive attributes," adds Granger....
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-biomarker-saliva-linked-stress-resilience.html
Laurent, et al. (2013). "Salivary Nerve Growth Factor Reactivity to Acute Psychosocial Stress: A New Frontier for Stress Research." Psychosomatic Medicine. Abstract.
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