Salivary Alpha-Amylase Correlates with Subjective Heat Pain Perception | Zendy

Amrei Wittwer | Zendy; Peter Krummenacher | Zendy; Roberto La Marca | Zendy; Ulrike Ehlert | Zendy; Gerd Folkers | Zendy

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Salivary Alpha-Amylase Correlates with Subjective Heat Pain Perception

Author(s) -

Amrei Wittwer,

Peter Krummenacher,

Roberto La Marca,

Ulrike Ehlert,

Gerd Folkers

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnv085

Subject(s) - saliva , medicine , visual analogue scale , biomarker , perception , quantitative sensory testing , audiology , physical therapy , anesthesia , psychology , sensory system , neuroscience , biochemistry , chemistry

Self-reports of pain are important for an adequate therapy. This is a problem with patients and infants who are restricted in providing an accurate verbal estimation of their pain. Reliable, real-time, economical, and non-invasive physiological correlates might contribute to a more comprehensive description of pain. Salivary alpha-amylase constitutes one candidate biomarker, which reflects predominantly sympathetic nervous system alterations under stressful conditions and can be measured non-invasively. The current study investigated the effects of acute heat pain on salivary alpha-amylase activity.

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