Radiotherapy or chemoradiation to the head or neck can affect your salivary glands. This means you may not make as much spit (saliva) as before and so your mouth may become dry. Your salivary glands ...

Objective: To use shear wave elastography (SWE) in the evaluation of salivary glands in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) who present with sicca symptoms. Materials and Methods: This was a ...

Therefore, this method cannot be used as a general-purpose platform. Additionally, there is no other method available for measuring SIgA except for ELISA, reinforcing the need for novel, simple ...

In many cases, technical development has been required to allow feasibility in the fetus, while an appreciation of the unique physiology of the fetal circulation is required for proper interpretation ...

fetal growth disorders, miscarriages and difficulties in getting pregnant. Animal studies have shown that exposure to pesticides caused damage to oocytes, decreased production of steroid hormones by ...

A widely publicized paper has drawn scrutiny from physicians and anatomists about the authors’ claims regarding so-called tubarial glands. “I don’t think the paper should be retracted, it should just ...

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 ...