Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands. Currently, there is no cure for it. Researchers have established the world's ...

While it is often overshadowed by its high-alert counterpart, the sympathetic nervous system, the PSNS has a powerful role in managing how your body handles stress. Understanding ...

Fibrosis is closely related to inflammation, both of which occur in the salivary glands of patients treated with radiation for head and neck cancers and in patients suffering from autoimmune ...

The gut-brain axis is the communication system between your digestive system and your brain. These two are constantly sending signals to each other through nerves, hormones and even gut bacteria ...

According to an article from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research database, humans have two large salivary glands right under their chin. McCoy and her team extract a cluster of ...

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.