Before giving details of this case, I beg to lor war a some extracts from a number of the Mofussilite, which records instances of hydrophobia having been cured by mercurial salivation. These extracts suggested to me the mode of treatment pursued in the present instance. " We regret to have to record a case of hydrophobia in this neighbourhood. In our last number we mentioned that a dog, which s...

www.chestpubs.org Correspondence to: Samatha Sonnappa, MD, PhD, Portex Unit: Respiratory Medicine and Physiology, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, 30, Guilford St, London, WC1N 1EH, England; e-mail: [email protected] © 2010 American College of Chest Physicians. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from...

The purpose of our study was to understand if Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) activation could contribute to the control of inflammation in Sjogren's syndrome. To this end, we manipulated TLR9 signaling in non-obese diabetic (NOD) and TLR9(-/-) mice using agonistic CpG oligonucleotide aptamers, TLR9 inhibitors, and the in-house oligonucleotide BL-7040. We then measured salivation, inflammatory resp...

Saliva is essential to oral health. The most obvious and important function of saliva is in eating, for taste and to lubricate food, as well as protecting the mucosa and teeth (Table 1). The water, mucins and proline-rich glycoproteins lubricate food and help swallowing. Importantly, saliva is essential for normal taste perception. Saliva is protective via the washing action, via various antimi...

Purpose. Description of pain is generally difficult in children, and more so in those with intellectual disabilities (ID). Aim. This study is aimed at evaluating dental pain from caregivers' perspective in children with ID. Methods. The study sampled 86 children (33 with ID, 53 normally developing) ages ranges from birth to 16 years old among those visiting the School of Dentistry, King Abdulaz...

Watch or even think of someone biting into a juicy lemon and your saliva will flow. This is a phenomenon of resonance, best described by the Perception-Action Model, where a physiological state in a person is activated through observation of this state in another. Within a broad framework of empathy, including manifold abilities depending on the Perception-Action link, resonance has been propos...

The VIIth cranial (facial) nerve is largely motor in function (some sensory fibres from external acoustic meatus, fibres controlling salivation and taste fibres from the anterior tongue in the chorda tympani branch). It also supplies the stapedius (so a complete nerve lesion will alter auditory acuity on the affected side). From the facial nerve nucleus in the brainstem, fibres loop around the ...