INTRODUCTION Sialendoscopy is a miniinvasive procedure which shows the excretory ducts of the salivary glands. AIM To evaluate patient satisfaction with sialendoscopy in submandibular and parotid gland sialolithiasis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group included 100 consecutive patients with sialolithiasis, treated by means of sialendoscopy. The analysis was designed prospectively. The pat...

Ninety 3-month-old male and female albino rats were divided into 6 equal groups. Three groups of animals received daily i.p. injections (20 mg) of isoproterenol for a 2-week period. Pellets of powdered 9,10-dimethyl-l ,2-benzanthracene (DMBA) were implanted into the right submaxillary salivary glands of the ex perimental animals 2 weeks prior to, simultaneous with, and 2 weeks after commencemen...

Cytokeratins (CK) are a group of proteins comprised of at least 20 different skeletal polypeptides specific for simple and complex epithelia of almost all tissues. Until recently only a few antibodies for cytoskeletal proteins were available and thus it was very difficult to visualize all the components of postnatal cytodifferentiation of salivary glands. Therefore, morphologic and immunophenot...

In view of the fact that human marijuana users often show dry mouth symptom, the present study was attempted to examine the localization of CB1, which was originally identified in brain, in the submandibular and sublingual salivary glands of postnatal developing male mice by immunohistochemistry. In submandibular gland, CB1-immunoreactivity was positive in a majority of acinar cells in forms of...

Lactoperoxidase (LPO) is an enzyme with antimicrobial properties present in saliva, milk, tears, and airway secretions. Although the formation of microbicidal oxidants by LPO has been recognized for some time, the source of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for LPO-catalyzed reactions remains unknown. Reactive oxygen species produced by the phagocyte NADPH oxidase (phox) play a critical role in host def...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Evaluate the patient-perceived effect of sialendoscopy on patients with obstructive symptoms from the salivary glands. STUDY DESIGN Retrospectively identified cohort used for a prospective study of all consecutive patients at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark, March 2009 to December 2013. METHODS By chart review we recorded the pat...

introduction: tobacco smoke is involved in the pathogenesis of several diseases in different body systems. saliva is the first body fluid that confront inhaled cigarette smoke which is injurious to the oral cavity and is associated with several oral diseases and cancer. the aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of smoking on the activity of alpha-amylase in the saliva of healthy smoker...

symptomatic mullerian duct cysts are uncommon. a young adult male presented to us with a palpable supra-pubic mass, pain and lower urinary tract symptoms. initial imaging modalities showed a large cystic lesion in the pelvis with a non-visualized right kidney. a short, blind ending right ureter on retrograde pyelography added to the confusion. on exploration, the lesion was noted to be separate...

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune-mediated disorder that involves multiple organs and characterized by the infiltration of lymphoplasmacytic cells, including IgG4-positive plasma along with storiform fibrosis obliterative phlebitis in inflamed organs. The primary sites affected this condition include pancreas, bile ducts, salivary glands, aorta, lungs, kidneys, meninges, lacrimal medi...

Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is characterized by dry eyes and dry mouth, but there is a wide spectrum of additional symptoms due to dryness. The treatment of dry mouth remains largely unsatisfactory and the correlation of dry mouth symptoms with either minor salivary biopsies or salivary gland flow rates remains low. These currently used methods of diagnosis (and therapeutic outcome) measure predomi...