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Table 1 Potential salivary biomarkers for oral cancer detection, reported as of 2013

From: A review of research on salivary biomarkers for oral cancer detection

Category

Potential OSCC salivary biomarkers

Authors/year

Non-organic compound

Na, Ca, F, and Mg

Shpitzer et al./2007 [55]

Peptide

Defensin-1

Mizukawa et al./1998 [28]

Proteins

P53 autoantibody

Warnakulasuriya et al./2000 [19]

α-amylase

Chen et al./2002 [20]

IL-8

St. John et al./2004 [23]

Rhodus et al./2005 [24]

Arellano-Garcia et al./2008 [70]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

TNF-α

Rhodus et al./2005 [24]

IL-1

IL-6

Rhodus et al./2005 [24]

Katakura et al./2007 [34]

Saheb-Jamee et al./2008 [35]

Sato et al./2010 [36]

Cheng et al./2013 [38]

Basic fibroblast growth factor

Vucicevic et al./2005 [27]

Gorugantula et al./2012 [39]

Statherin

Contucci et al./2005 [62]

Cyfra 21.1

Nagler et al./2006 [25]

Tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA)

Cancer antigen 125 (CA125)

Nagler et al./2006 [25]

Balan et al./2012 [57]

Endothelin-1

Pickering et al./2007 [21]

Cheng et al./2011 [40]

IL-1β

Katakura et al./2007 [34]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

CD44

Franzmann et al./2007 [46]

Total salivary protein

Shpitzer et al./2007 [55]

Insulin growth factor 1 (IGF-1)

MMP-2

MMP-9

Shpitzer et al./2007, 2009 [49, 55]

CD59

Hu et al./2008 [29]

Catalase

Profilin

S100A9/MRP14

M2BP

Hu et al./2008 [29]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)

He et al./2009 [54]

Carcinoma associated antigen CA-50

Salivary carbonyls

Shipitzer et al./2009 [49]

Cyclin D1

Maspin

8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1)

Phosphorylated-Src

Ki-67

Lactate dehydrogenase

Shipitzer et al./2009 [49]

Shetty et al./2012 [58]

Transferrin

Jou et al./2010 [45]

Zinc finger protein 501 peptide

Jou et al./2011 [60]

Hemopexin

Jessie et al./2013 [59]

Haptoglobin

Complement C3

Transthyretin

α1-antitrypsin

DNAs

P53 gene codon 63

Liao et al./2000 [18]

Loss of heterozygosity in the combination of markers D3S1234, D9S156, and D17S799

El-Naggar et al./2001 [51]

Mitochondrial DNAs (cytochrome c oxidase I and cytochrome c oxidase II)

Jiang et al./2005 [37]

Hypermethylation of promoters in tumor suppressor genes: DAPK, DCC, MINT-31, TIMP-31, TIMP-3, p16, MGMT, CCNA1

Carvalho et al./2011 [61]

mRNAs

IL-8

Li et al./2004 [22]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

IL-1β

Li et al./2004 [22]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

DUSP1 (dual specificity phosphatase 1)

Li et al./2004 [22]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

Cheng et al./2013 [41]

H3F3A (H3 histone family 3A)

Li et al./2004 [22]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

OAZ1 (ornithin decarboxylase antizyme 1)

Li et al./2004 [22]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

Cheng et al./2013 [41]

S100P (S100 calcium binding protein P)

Li et al./2004 [22]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

Cheng et al./2013 [41]

SAT (spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase EST)

Li et al./2004 [22]

Brinkmann et al./2011 [43]

Elashoff et al./2012 [44]

MicroRNAs

miR-125a

Park et al./2009 [31]

miR-200a

miR-31

Liu et al./2012 [33]

Long non-coding RNAs

HOTAIR

Tang et al./2013 [56]

Oxidative stress-related molecules

Reactive nitrogen species (RNS) such as nitric oxide (NO), nitrites (NO2) and nitrates (NO3)

Bahar et al./2007 [26]

Peroxidase

Bahar et al./2007 [26]

Glutathione S-transferase (GST)

Bahar et al./2007 [26]

Superoxide dismutase (SOD)

Agha-Hosseini et al./2012 [52]

8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG)

Glutathione

Almadori et al./2007 [30]

Malondialdehyde (MDA)

Agha-Hosseini et al./2012 [52]

Glucocorticoid

Cortisol

Bernabé et al./2012 [53]

Metabolomics

Cadaverine, alpha-aminobutyric acid, alanine, C5H14N5, piperidine, taurine piperideine, pipercolic acid, C4H9N, C8H9N, pyrroline hydroxycarboxylic acid, betaine, C6H6N2O2, leucine+isoleucine, tyrosine, histidine, tryptophan, beta-alanine, glutamic acid, threonine, serine, glutamine, choline, carnitine, C4H5N2O11P

Sugimoto et al./2010 [47]

Phenylalanine

Wei et al./2011 [48]

Sugimoto et al./2010 [47]

Valine

Wei et al./2011 [48]

Sugimoto et al./2010 [47]

Lactic acid

Wei et al./2011 [48]

Glycosylation- related molecules

Sialic acid

Vajaria et al./2013 [32]

α-L-fucosidase

Other

Telomerase activity

Zhong et al./2005 [50]