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Achieving Nitric Oxide Measurements with Indicator Strips

5 Feb 2023 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt describing saliva test strips developed to measure salivary nitrite (circa 2010). The strips indicate presence of nitrate-reducing oral bacteria (turning bright pink) and are said to have some false positives but no false negatives, assuming no active oral infection.

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2010.

Presence of nitrate-reducing oral bacteria (measured via salivary nitrite).

The speaker states there are no false negatives (assuming no active oral infection).

I developed in 2010 these saliva test strips. So it's a good way you can actually measure your salivary nitrite. So now we can tell if you have the right oral bacteria. So if you, if you're lighting up that test strip with and it turns bright pink, then that tells us that or it can tell us that you have nitrate reducing bacteria presence, provided you don't have an active oral infection. So there are some false positives on that test strip that people need to be aware of, but there are no false negatives.