Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands.

Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands. Currently, there is no cure for it. Researchers have established the world's ...

Salivary glands play an essential role in protecting oral health by secreting saliva to aid in digestion, speech, and immunity.

movement of muscles that produce facial expression movement of the lacrimal, submaxillary, and submandibular glands the sensation of the external ear the sensation of taste The four nuclei ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Submandibular gland autotransplantation is effective for treating severe dry eye syndrome. However, more than 40 ...

Of all salivary gland stones, 80 percent form in the submandibular salivary glands, but they can form in any of the salivary glands, including: Salivary stones cause swelling, pain or both in the ...

Identifying the cell populations and crosstalk between immune cells and non-immune cells will assist us in understanding the aetiology of IgG4-RD. Methods We performed single-cell RNA sequencing ...

Radiation damage to the salivary glands is a known short-term and long-term complication of radioactive iodine (131 I) therapy for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.[1,2,3,4] This morbid ...

Cystadenoma of salivary glands is an uncommon benign neoplasm that presents intraluminal papillary projections. The authors describe one case of cystadenoma located in the buccal mucosa and highlight ...