Somatosensory Modulation of Salivary Gene Expression and Oral Feeding in Preterm Infants: Randomized Controlled Trial

Steven Michael Barlow   ¹ , BS, MS, PhD ;   Jill Lamanna Maron   ² , AB, MPH, MD ;   Gil Alterovitz   ³ , BS, SM, PhD ;   Dongli Song   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Bernard Joseph Wilson   ⁵ , BS, MD ;   Priya Jegatheesan   ⁴ , MD ;   Balaji Govindaswami   ⁴ , MBBS, MPH ;   Jaehoon Lee   ⁶ , BA, MS, PhD ;   Austin Oder Rosner   ² , BA, PhD

¹ Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior, Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States

² Tufts Medical Center, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston, MA, United States

³ Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA, United States

⁵ CHI Health St. Elizabeth, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Lincoln, NE, United States

⁶ IMMAP, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States