Table 2.

Salivary peptide variations by group and time. Values reflect fmol detected.

	Time 1		P-value*	Time 2		P-value*
Peptide	No OCP	OCP		No OCP	OCP
S100a7-S1	22 (7–45)	17 (8–39)	0.68	20 (9–28)	15 (8–27)	0.5
S100a7-S2	42 (5–169)	35 (5–60)	0.33	38 (5–88)	18 (5–68)	0.27
S100a8-S1	102 (49–305)	101 (39–313)	0.92	206 (57–457)	144 (44–308)	0.26
S100a8-S2	683 (109–1064)	495 (190–854)	0.56	562 (252–1037)	511 (197–789)	0.43
S100a9-S1	2392 (287–3465)	1669 (755–2540)	0.7	1886 (731–4008)	1777 (934–2473)	0.52
S100a9-S2	364 (67–614)	198 (112–337)	0.23	319 (114–498)	241 (114–311)	0.092
Surfactant protein A	0 (0–7)	5 (0–5)	0.83	5 (0–6)	0 (0–5)	0.4
Alpha defensin 1-S1	1 (0–3)	1 (0–1)	0.32	1 (0–10)	1 (0–5)	0.41
Alpha defensin 5	1 (1–7)	1 (1–1)	0.64	1 (0–1)	1 (0–1)	0.25
Lactoferrin-S1	15 (1–40)	11 (1–23)	0.52	29 (1–91)	57 (1–92)	0.46
Lactoferrin-S2	14 (8–20)	10 (7–17)	0.29	21 (12–38)	49 (14–103)	0.08
Immunoglobulin A	10 (10–68)	10 (10–196)	0.89	42 (10–328)	102 (29–1373)	0.1
Lysozyme C-S1	1122 (559–2058)	1257 (698–2184)	0.89	1972 (1344–2617)	1680 (836–3416)	0.59
Lysozyme C-S2	0 (0–20)	0 (0–12)	0.69	8 (0–23)	15 (0–31)	0.18

Median (quartiles), Time 1: 1–2 days of life; Time 2: 8–9 days of life.

^*Wilcoxon rank test