Salivary Biomarkers in COVID-19 Patients: Towards a Wide-Scale Test for Monitoring Disease Activity.
Cecilia NapodanoCinzia CallàAntonella FioritaMariapaola MarinoEleonora TaddeiTiziana Di CesareGiulio Cesare PassaliRiccardo Di SantoAnnunziata StefanileMassimo FantoniAndrea UrbaniGaetano PaludettiGian Ludovico RapacciniGabriele CiascaUmberto BasilePublished in: Journal of personalized medicine (2021)
These results suggest λFLC as an ideal indicator of patient conditions. This hypothesis is strengthened by the consideration that the λFLC half-life (approximately 6 h) is significantly shorter than the IgA one (21 days), thus confirming the potential of λFLC for effectively monitoring patients' fluctuation in real-time.