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Check-Saliva research focuses on the use of saliva and urine as a non-invasive tool to monitor some of the metabolic changes secondary to the microgravity-induced reduction in bone\/muscle mass. Saliva and urine are biological fluids, which can be easily and repeatedly collected without risks.\u00a0 Past and recent data from different laboratories consistently indicate that the chemical composition of saliva and urine reflects, in many aspects, the chemical composition of blood.\u00a0 This is true also for some markers of bone or muscle conditions.\u00a0 In fact, saliva, urine, and blood tend to have similar levels of bone mineral components (calcium and phosphate), of bone-related vitamins (vitamin D), and of end-products of muscle protein (urea), etc. Therefore tests using Check-Saliva can validate whether saliva and\/or urine can be used as simple, non- invasive tools to monitor crewmembers&#8217; bone and muscle status during a space mission.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[53],"class_list":["post-17073","esperimenti","type-esperimenti","status-publish","hentry","category-human-research-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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