Professor Peter Brennan, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, has been ...

The first patient, who had xerostomia linked with Sjögren's disease, received the autologous cell therapy as part of a Phase ...

ProstACT Global is trialling a promising new treatment option for prostate cancer, which is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death for U.S. men. This ...

Just five months after giving birth to our third (and final) child in 2015, my wife experienced something odd: Her smile ...

The integumentary system is the body’s outermost layer. Composed of skin, hair, nails, glands, and nerves, its main job is to protect your insides from elements in your environment, like pollution and ...

Also, there are several hundred minor salivary glands throughout the mouth and throat. Saliva drains into the mouth through small tubes called ducts. Your salivary glands make saliva, which is ...

Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On the other hand, your body provides a spa-like environment that is temperate ...

Advertisement A female mosquito’s inner workings – particularly its guts and salivary glands – create the perfect environment for a virus to flourish. When a mosquito bites an infected nonhuman host, ...

Objective Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is characterised by chronic hyperactivation of B lymphocytes. Salivary gland epithelial cells (SGECs) could play a role in promoting B-lymphocyte activation ...

The glands had a firm, rubbery consistence; they were neither tender nor inflamed, and the overlying skin was freely movable. Two patients had associated swelling of the submaxillary salivary glands.