Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, ...

Salivary gland blockage can result from multiple causes including salivary stones, narrowing of the duct by scar tissue, dehydration, side-effects of certain medications, autoimmune diseases and ...

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications. Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits ...

This tracer is effectively concentrated and secreted by salivary gland tissue, thus affording the opportunity to study gland function in real-time. Once radiation damage to the gland has occurred ...

Minor salivary gland cancer can occur in your lips, tongue, roof of the mouth (palate), inner cheek, throat, voice box (larynx), nose, and sinuses. Your surgeon usually removes some surrounding tissue ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the ...

Szyszko and colleagues investigated the expression of the molecules necessary for persistence of long-lived plasma cells on sections of minor salivary gland tissue from patients with pSS.

S jögren's disease primarily affects the salivary and lacrimal glands, resulting in tissue inflammation characterized by the formation of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS), and a loss of ...

Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. announced that data on their investigational drug elraglusib, designed to treat advanced salivary gland carcinoma by inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β ...