News tagged with salivary gland

Radiation risks to health: A joint statement from leading scientific experts

The growing concern surrounding the release of radiation from an earthquake and tsunami-stricken nuclear complex in Japan has raised fears of radiation exposure to populations in North America from the potential plume of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Clinical trial for dry mouth

A clinical trial using an all-natural lozenge to treat dry mouth, a condition that impacts 40 percent of American adults, is under way at Georgia Health Sciences University College of Dental Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Salivary glands as organs of immunity: New research makes oral immunization easier to swallow

If you don't like shots or needles, you're in luck. New research published online in The FASEB Journal gives the development of new oral vaccinations a shot in the arm thanks to discoveries involving the salivary glands of mic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small details between 'in vivo' and 'in vitro' studies make for big differences

Small details between "in vivo" and "in vitro" studies make for big differences in understanding diabetes and other secretory dysfunctions

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LSUHSC reports first successful salivary stone removal with robotics

Dr. Rohan Walvekar, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Director of Clinical Research and the Salivary Endoscopy Service at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has reported the first use of a ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Watching Lyme disease-causing microbes move in ticks

Lyme disease is caused by the microbe Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans from feeding ticks.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Venomous bite: Harmless digestive enzyme evolved into venom in two species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have shown that independent but similar molecular changes turned a harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two unrelated species -- a shrew and a lizard -- giving each a venomous ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Komodo even more deadly than thought: Research

The carnivorous reptiles (Varanus komodoensis) are known to bite prey and release them, leaving them to bleed to death from their wounds: the victims are reported to go into shock before the dragons kill a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 4

Researchers find essential proteins for critical stage of malaria

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) have identified the molecular components that enable the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito—a critical ...

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created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0