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Grant Number: 3R01MH062320-03S1 Project Title: Deciduous Teeth as a Stress Biomarker in Children (RMI)
PI Information: Name Title BOYCE, W THOMAS. tom.boyce@ubc.ca PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CHILD DEVE Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research on stress and adversity as predictors of health outcomes has generally relied two sources of salient data: a) reports of acute and chronic stressors, which are liable to subjectivity, poor inter-rater reliability, and memory biases; and b) measures of biological reactivity to laboratory challenges, which Represent only 'snapshots' of physiological states over short periods of time. Recent work, on the other hand, suggests that the 'wear and tear' of stressors and adaptations integrated over time may be the singularly best predictor of health and disease. What are now urgently needed are methodological innovations that operationalize and index cumulative biological adaptation to adversity over time. Such need is most urgent and compelling in studies of adverse social conditions in young children, where evidence suggests that effects of stress are strong and lasting, where self-reports are impossible, and where measures of biological reactivity are logistically and ethically problematic. Thus, the accurate appraisal of childhood stressful experience awaits a measure of cumulative biological impact on target tissues. In this supplemental application to a funded R01 award (1R01MH 62320-01 ), we propose to study deciduous teeth as a tissue record of corticotropic releasing hormone (CRH) system activation over the first 5-6 years of life. The study's objective is to examine exfoliated teeth for dental biomarkers from a subset of a 300-child study of mental and physical health correlates of social position within kindergarten peer hierarchies. The exfoliated deciduous teeth of children with high and low profiles of basal and reactive salivary cortisol secretion will be examined--using polarized light, electron, and atomic force microscopy, microradiograph, and infrared reflectance spectroscopy--to compare measures of micro anatomical dimensions, mineral density, and mechanical properties. The proposed research would assess the reliability and empirical validity of these measures as indicators of long term CRH system activation.
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This Public Health Relevance is not available.Thesaurus Terms:
biomarker, child psychology, middle childhood (6-11), preschool child (1-5), social status, stressor, tooth
child behavior, interpersonal relations, longitudinal human study, peer group
behavior test, behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, human subject, interview, psychometrics, questionnaire
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Room 313 BERKELEY, CA 947045940 Fiscal Year: 2004 Department: INSTITUTE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Project Start: 30-SEP-2004 Project End: 30-JUN-2006 ICD: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH IRG: ZRG1