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 (p < 0.05), but there was no correlation between the 2 groups (r = 0.251, p = 0.089). This suggests that sAA can be useful as a stress biomarker in diseased dogs.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e46 |
| Journal | Journal of Veterinary Science |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2019 |
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Alpha-amylase
- Dogs
- Saliva
- Serum
- Stress
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