Abstracts tagged "biomarkers and salivary gland"

Abstract Number: 526 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Descriptive and Comparative Study of the Transcriptome from Salivary Exosomes of Sjögren’s Syndrome Patients Using RNA-Seq
Alessia Gallo¹, Mayank Tandon², Shyh-Ing Jang³, Ana Paola Cotrim⁴ and Ilias Alevizos⁵, ¹NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²Sjogren's Clinic, NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, ³Molecular Physiology and Therapeutics Branch, NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, ⁴NIDCR, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Sjogren's Clinic, NIDCR/ NIH #10 1N110, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose Saliva is a biofluid secreted by the salivary glands (SGs) that is critical for the health of the oral cavity. In Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS),…