Generalist herbivores feed on a wide array of plants and need to adapt to varying host qualities and defenses. One of the first insect derived secretions to come in contact with the plant is the saliva. Insect saliva is potentially involved in both the pre-digestion of the host plant as well as induction/suppression of plant defenses, yet how the salivary glands respond to changes in host plant...

The study was conducted on ten healthy buffalo calves. The labial glands were distributed mainly at the commissure of lips and some isolated lobes in upper and lower lips. The gland was not encapsulated and parenchyma was comprised of secretory units and duct system. The adenomeres (secretory units) were mainly mucous with some serous and mixed type. Few serous demilunes capping the mucous alve...

INTRODUCTION Surgical and histologic sources of information give little reference to innervation, vascular, and epithelial details of the labia minora. Little is known about areas of nerve density, epithelial qualities, and vascular compartments of the labial minora that contribute to sexual arousal and orgasm. Surgical procedure development and counsel about surgical risks related to labioplas...

Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by distraction of particularly salivary and lacrimal glands. The aim of the present study was to compare salivary gland scintigraphy (SGS) and salivary gland ultrasonography (SUS) in identifying salivary gland function in patients first diagnosed with SjS. We recruited 20 such patients with SjS (5 male, 15 female, aged from 35 to 6...

Recommendation 1161 Standardisation of labial salivary gland histopathology in clinical trials in primary Sjögren’s syndrome B A Fisher, R Jonsson, T Daniels, M Bombardieri, R M Brown, P Morgan, S Bombardieri, W-F Ng, A G Tzioufas, C Vitali, P Shirlaw, E Haacke, S Costa, H Bootsma, V Devauchelle-Pensec, T R Radstake, X Mariette, A Richards, R Stack, S J Bowman, F Barone, on behalf of the Sjögre...

Objective. Immunoglobulin-G4-(IgG4-) related disease (IgG4 RD) is a fibrosing process characterized by a significant infiltration of IgG4-secreting plasma cells. IgG4 RD can affect almost all organs including salivary glands. Whether IgG4 RD plays a role in the development of sicca syndrome and particularly dry mouth syndrome remains to be investigated. Methods. We conducted a monocentric cohor...