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regarding salivary gland issues by Joan H. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 30 Jul 2007 12:00am From time to time (like today!) I get an email or a comment asking for good information about salivary gland damage from RAI, RadioActive Iodine treatment... to salivary glands. This is a much more technical article targeted at a medical professionals, but it also includes an illustration of a very beneficial massage technique (figure 7 Read on »

Smokeless Tobacco Not a Risk Factor for Cancer of the Salivary Glands by Brad R. Posted Tue 08 May 2012 10:02pm Two celebrities -- Adam Yauch ("MCA" of the Beastie Boys) and Tony Gwynn (Hall of Fame baseball player) -- were recently reported to have suffered salivary gland cancer. This has prompted questions about tobacco use as a possible risk factor. Cancer of the salivary gland is exquisitely rare. For perspective, data from the Sur ... Read on »

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (MALT) of salivary glands and scleroderma: a case report by Jan Posted Tue 09 Mar 2010 12:00am By Monika Prochorec-Sobieszek and Colleague Abstract The connection between scleroderma and lymphoma is uncommon and its pathogenic relationship is a much debated subject. We describe the case of a patient with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (MALT) of both parotid glands without clinical signs of Sjögrens syndrome who Read on »

What's an 'atypical pituitary adenoma'? by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 01 Dec 2008 10:13am We recently had a case at our institution of an atypical pituitary adenoma, confirmed by BerndScheithauer at the Mayo Clinic. What is implied by the designation of a pituitary adenoma as being “atypical”? Burger, Scheithauer, and Vogel -- in their textbook Surgical Pathology of the Nervous System and Its Coverings by (4 th Edition, 2002), page 469 Read on »

Best Post of December '08: What's an 'atypical pituitary adenoma'? by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 3:12pm it is: We recently had a case at our institution of an atypical pituitary adenoma, confirmed by BerndScheithauer at the Mayo Clinic. What is implied by the designation of a pituitary adenoma as being “atypical”? Burger, Scheithauer, and Vogel -- in their textbook Surgical Pathology of the Nervous System and Its Coverings by (4 th Edition, 2002), page 469 – have Read on »

Aspirin and adenomas. by lcampbe79 Patient Expert

Posted Wed 11 Feb 2009 3:25pm attacks. I don't see how an aspirin can stop adenomas from forming considering the reason why they are showing up is because the APC gene is screwed up. Remembering what I heard, went through and just all the other information, I'm not sold at all that an aspirin will stop adenomas from forming. I hope that when people read about this they don't think Read on »

Vaccines Comprising Sand Fly Salivary Proteins for Control of Leishmania Infection by nih.gov Posted Tue 25 May 2010 5:00pm Description of Invention: This invention relates to the use of several peptides from the salivary glands of various sand fly species for the control of leishmania... the disease. A vaccine comprising one of the peptides was used to protect mice challenged with parasites and salivary gland homogenates. A DNA vaccine containing the cDNA for this same Read on »

Will Dentists Help Detect Breast Cancer--New Salivary Test by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted Mon 29 Sep 2008 1:04am produces a change in the normal type and amount of proteins in glandular secretions from the salivary glands. Biochemists the University of Texas at Austin are using Read on »

Research: Salivary Screening for Celiac Acceptable in Diagnosis by Amy Leger Posted Fri 17 Dec 2010 9:51am A quick swipe of the mouth is all it takes for this kind of celiac screening! Now research is reporting its not just easy, but it's also effective. Read on »

Altered Salivary Redox Homeostasis in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Jan Posted Fri 12 Nov 2010 1:00am nonstimulated saliva. Results. We observed a significantly positive association between salivary log protein carbonyls and SSc in a crude statistic (OR 9.06, p < 0.0001), and multivariable model adjusted for log 8-OHdG, log 8-epi-PGF2α, and antioxidant exposure (OR 9.26, p < 0.0001). No significant association was noted between SSc and salivary log 8-epi-PGF2α Read on »