Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Salivary alpha-amylase as a stress biomarker in diseased dogs.
- Journal:
- Journal of veterinary science
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Hong, Hwa Ran et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine · South Korea
- Species:
- dog
Abstract
Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) is a stress biomarker in human diseases, but there are no reports of sAA measurements in diseased dogs. This study measured the sAA and serum alpha-amylase (AA) levels in 16 healthy dogs and 31 diseased dogs using a kinetic enzyme assay to assess the stress status. The sAA and serum AA levels were significantly higher in the diseased dogs than in healthy dogs (< 0.05), but there was no correlation between the 2 groups (= 0.251,= 0.089). This suggests that sAA can be useful as a stress biomarker in diseased dogs.
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