“…Sugimoto et al reported on the metabolomics of saliva of oral, breast and pancreatic cancer using capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry and reported that the concentration of leucine, isoleucine, tryptophan, valine, threonine, histidine, alanine and phenylalanine in patients with OSCC were elevated than in normal subjects. The elevated levels of these amino acids in saliva are probably because of the degradation of proteins present in saliva and bacterial metabolism . Hence, this provides base to conclude that the elevation in the level of histidine, proline and valine in saliva of oral premalignant and malignant conditions may be because of the degradation of salivary proteins.…”