You have three major salivary glands, including your parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands. (Photo credit: FERNANDO DA CUNHA/Science Source) ACC can also show up in other parts of your ...

During digestion, the body breaks these compounds down into smaller parts. This enables them ... smells or thinks of food or eating, the salivary glands begin producing saliva.

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 ...

Parotitis is inflammation of one or both parotid glands, two large salivary glands responsible ... (a disorder where the immune system attacks parts of the body that make moisture), and systemic ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

Scientists have identified tricellulin loss as the root cause of dry mouth in Sjögren's syndrome, and successfully reversed ...

Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune condition where white blood cells attack the salivary and tear glands. This typically results in reduced tear production. In some cases, other parts of the ...

Plasma cells with characteristics of long-lived cells, and factors necessary for long term survival, are present in the salivary glands of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), report ...

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 ...