The major salivary glands produce approximately one quart of saliva each day, which in turn plays a crucial role in food digestion, swallowing, speech, and protection of teeth against bacteria and ...

PSMA also lights up saliva glands, but unexpectedly, other areas in the human head started to shine. This led to the ...

Human saliva can be regarded as the exemplar bodily fluid for proteomics studies. Proteomics studies have demonstrated the high inter- and intra-variability of human saliva. Many studies of ...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare kind of cancer. It usually starts in the glands that make your saliva. There are four glands under your tongue. You have two submandibular and two ...

Beyond its role in the initiation of digestion, the oral microbiome appears to be key to maintaining both oral and systemic ...

A significant discovery has identified a missing "gatekeeper" protein as the root cause of dry mouth in Sjögren's syndrome — ...

The study, "PRMT5 inhibition has a potent anti-tumor activity against adenoid cystic carcinoma of salivary glands," is published ... xenografts (PDXs), which are human tumors implanted in mice.