title: Growth hormone and cortisol in serum and saliva.
abstract: Salivary diagnosis is a developing area in clinical chemistry and dentistry. Cortisol analyses from saliva have been used in pediatric practice and as doping tests. Growth hormone (hGH), also a stress hormone, has not been analyzed from saliva. We studied the serum and saliva of 51 healthy subjects. The samples were taken at 8:00 in the morning after 12 h fasting. Cortisol concentrations were analyzed using RIA. An immunoradiometric assay was applied for analyzing serum and salivary hGH. The validity of this method developed in our laboratory was found to be good. The results showed correlation of salivary cortisol with that of serum (r = 0.47, P < 0.001). Salivary hGH concentrations were 1000-fold lower than the respective values in serum, but a clear correlation was found between salivary and serum hGH levels (r = 0.59, P < 0.001).
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Chemistry, Kuopio University Hospital, Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland. panu.rantonen@hammasplus.net
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Rantonen
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Penttilä
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Meurman
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Savolainen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Närvänen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Helenius
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D019382:Human Growth Hormone; D006854:Hydrocortisone