唾液a-淀粉酶在儿童应激中的研究进展

Research Progress of Salivary a-Amylase in Children’s Stress

环境因素对儿童生长发育起到重要作用。在儿童成长过程中会接触到各种类型的应激源,过强、持续的应激暴露会破坏儿童自身较为脆弱的生物学保护机制,并由此产生一系列可能危害儿童身心健康的应激反应。量化评价应激反应效应的技术方法是开展医学、心理学、教育学等领域研究的重要手段。本文选取唾液a-淀粉酶作为生物标志物,通过综述唾液a-淀粉酶在儿童应激领域的最新研究成果,展示唾液a-淀粉酶指标检测用于评测儿童身心健康的研究案例和方法,为相关专业研究者开展儿童发展研究提供新的办法和思路。

Environmental factors play an important role in children’s growth and development. As children grow up, they are exposed to various types of stressors, excessive and sustained stress exposure can undermine children’s own fragile biological protection mechanisms, and result in a series of stress reactions that may endanger children’s physical and mental health. Technical methods for quantitatively evaluating the effects of stress response are important means for conducting research in fields such as medicine, psychology and education. In this paper, salivary a-amylase was selected as a biomarker, and a review was written to present the recent advances of salivary a-amylase as the marker in the research of child stress, enumerating the case study and methods of using salivary a-amylase as index to assess children’s physical and mental health, which could provide new methods and ideas for related professional researchers to conduct research on child development.