introduction: there is a limited number of case reports published in the past decade confirming the radio-iodine presence in the tear. these observations as well as reported cases of salivary and lacrimal gland dysfunction after radioiodine therapy stimulated investigators to clarify whether lacrimal gland function can be affected post-radioiodine therapy. hence we planned a historical cohort s...

Proceeding from the assumption that lymph glands of our body serve as a place production and accumulation specific antibodies at tuberculosis infection, author suggests using for therapeutic purposes injections extracts or same patient extracted another. He considers most suitable in stage swelling edema; he cautions against softening lumpy glands.

This paper represents the first ultrastructural descriptions of the cloacal glands of a male salamander. All male salamanders in the suborder Salamandroidea possess these glands, which are required for internal fertilization. These glands are responsible for producing spermatophores and, in some species, certain glands produce female-attracting pheromones. Both scanning and transmission electro...

  To detect the effects of sympathomimetic drugs with selective action on β1 and β2 adrenoceptors, male albino mice were treated by intraperitoneal administration of dobutamine and terbutaline for 15 days. Three groups of mice were selected as dobutamine, terbutaline and control groups, respectively. At the end of the experiment, the animals were sacrificed and the parotid glands were removed a...

Mod&r, Lavstedt, and Ahlund studied the oral health effects of smoking and snuff use in 232 Swedish school children ages 13 to 14 years (119 boys and 113 girls) (36). Thirteen (11 percent) of the boys used snuff. The children were interviewed regarding their tobacco and toothbrushing habits, and examin ers (blind to the interview results) clinically assessed the degree of gingival mflammation, ...

ninety six pairs of adrenal glands from lori – bakhtiari sheep and goat, aged 6 month to 1 year and 1 – 1.5 year from borujen abattoir were collected. after collecting the glands and weighting them, some parameters such as: length, wide and thickness of left and right side by caliper device were measured. in histological studies, after tissue preparation and staining with h&e;, cortical zones a...

External irradiation of advanced head and neck cancer often includes the major salivary glands, despite them not being affected by the disease. The aim of this study was to determine neuron-specific enolase (NSE) as a marker of inflammation in irradiated and non-irradiated salivary glands of the rat. This study shows that NSE expression in irradiated salivary glands is dependent on the topograp...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a locally invasive tumour of the salivary glands and accounts for nearly one third all malignancies major minor glands. It has female preponderance (3:2) common after decade life. Here we report case 32-year-old woman who had successful pregnancy outcome following treatment extensive maxillary mucoepidermoid with metastasis.