Such obstruction can also progress to severe infection associated with high fevers, pain, and progressive swelling. Common Causes Salivary gland blockage can result from multiple causes including ...

If you have a salivary gland infection or the parotid gland becomes blocked due to salivary gland stones or scar tissue, you could also experience jaw pain or swelling.

However, the mice did not have salivary gland inflammation or increased levels of autoantibodies characteristic of Sjögren's disease in humans, suggesting that the loss of calcium signaling in ...

A $2.1 million NIH renewal grant is funding dental researcher Jill Kramer's study leading to possible treatments for the ...

The first hint of this new gland emerged while Wouter Vogel, a radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI), was probing for damage to salivary glands after radiotherapy for cancer ...

Even (or especially) Tony Gwynn himself ascribed his salivary gland cancer to his prodigious chaw habit, carried on over decades in baseball. The parotid gland is a salivary gland located just in ...

Some causes include bacterial and viral infections, salivary gland stones, poor oral hygiene, gland hypo secretion and medications such as antihistamines, diuretics and beta blockers.

The salivary glands of some tick species could become important research tools for studying how viruses are transmitted from ticks to mammals, and for developing preventive medical countermeasures.

Kenneth T. Izutsu, Sahba Fatherazi, Carol M. Belton, Dolphine Oda, Frank D. Cartwright, George E. Kenny, Mycoplasma orale Infection Affects K⁺ and Cl⁻ Currents in the HSG Salivary Gland Cell Line, In ...