Salimetrics

Advancing discovery through salivary assay
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Why Salivary Assay?

For most humans, salivating is effortless. Saliva collection is simple, minimally invasive and pain free. And Saliva’s cytokine, hormone, protein and genetic contents speak volumes about pain, health and stress.

Why Salimetrics?

Salivary Assays Created By Researchers

A pioneer of salivary assays and saliva collection devices, Salimetrics has superior salivary assay tool quality, accuracy and reliability because we are researchers.

One-Stop, Multi-Level, Multi-System Salivary Research Tools

The introduction of Salivary DNA Analysis enables integrated multi-level, multi-system research in the same study, with one call. We believe integrated studies will more quickly translate to therapies and medications to eliminate or minimize pain, illness and stress, enhancing performance and improving life quality for countless individuals around the globe.

A Passion For Spit—We love to help.

Measuring stress hormones like cortisol? Reproductive hormones such as estrone, estrodial and progesterone? Biomarkers cotinine, melatonin and alpha amylase? Want to add SNP genotyping or VNTR analysis to any of these studies? Need saliva collection devices or advice? Help with study design?

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Spit Camp

Salivary Analyte Basics for Behavioral and Social Scientists

Salimetrics will open its facility for training focused on the measurement of salivary analytes and integration of salivary measures into behavioral, social, and health sciences.

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All Things Saliva

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Allostasis and the Human Brain: Integrating Models of Stress From the Social and Life Sciences

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01.25.10

Attachment Disorganization in Infants and the Effect of the DRD4 Polymorphism.

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11.18.09

Review: Estrogen Receptors and Human Disease.

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02.22.10

Tryptophan depletion affects the autonomic stress response in generalized social anxiety disorder. Read More


02.22.10

Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behavior.
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02.15.10

Effects of an attachment-based intervention on the cortisol production of infants and toddlers in foster care. Read More


02.10.10

Parent-adolescent physiological attunement is affected by interparental aggression.
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Announcements

02.19.10

Our April 8th and 9th Spit Camp is full! To reserve your spot for our June 3rd and 4th Spit Camp, or for additional 2010 dates, please pre-register and we'll send you further registration details! To attend, registration must be completed by April 23rd.