Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers

Figure 1

Salivary TNF-α and IL-6 in T2DM: Unstimulated whole saliva (UWS) was collected from 20 T2DM individuals and 20 healthy individuals. Each UWS sample was depleted of amylase and immunoglobulins. Precleaned UWS was assessed for TNF-α and IL-6 using specific sandwich ELISA kits.