Aggressive external massage of the parotid gland is advised to milk out the retained saliva, increase salivary lavage, and flush out ductal debris (Fig. 7). Antibiotics may be used if infection is ...

The pathogenesis of parotid hypertrophy under the conditions reported is unexplained. Frequent reference is made to morphologic and functional similarities between salivary glands and the pancreas ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

Submandibular salivary ... salivary glands have been reported to occur before (about one week) infiltration by chronic inflammatory cells that occurs later (about eight weeks). 39 For example, the ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

The high mobility group A (HMGA) family is composed of four proteins, HMGA1a, HMGA1b, HMGA1c and HMGA2, encoded by two distinct genes. HMGA1 proteins are products of the same gene, generated ...

These results revealed that the murine adrenal gland microenvironment was highly heterogeneous and composed of diverse cell types. Following systemic C. albicans infection, the proportions of most ...

Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) and signal transducers and activators of transcription 5 (STAT5) are involved in the proliferation, differentiation, and survival of mammary gland epithelial cells. Dysregulation ...

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