Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry-based saliva metabolomics identified oral, breast and pancreatic cancer-specific profiles.

"This work was supported by NIH grant DE017170 (to D.T.W.), a grant from the Global COE Program entitled “Human Metabolomic Systems Biology,” and “Grant-in-Aid” research grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan for Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Systems Genomes”, as well as research funds from Yamagata prefectural government and the city of Tsuruoka (to M.S., A.H., T.S., and M.T.). D.T.W. acknowledges the colleagues who provided the clinical samples for this study: Elliot Abemayor, Marilene Wang, Mai Brooks, James Ferrell, and Perry Klokkevoid and members of his laboratory at UCLA: Bradley Henson, Jianghua Wang, Xinmin Yang and David Akin. M.S., A.H., T.S., and M.T. thank Shinobu Abe and Kenjiro Kami of IAB for technical support and valuable discussions, and Dr. Ursula Petralia for editing the manuscript."