Researchers have found previously unnoticed salivary glands in the human throat. The team from The Netherlands Cancer Institute, which published findings in Radiotherapy and Oncology, coined the new ...

All 100 patients with prostate or urethral gland cancer demonstrated a divided bilateral PSMA-positive area with an average length of 4 cm. Examining the glands and 3D reconstruction confirmed the ...

Caecilian, Siphonops annulatus, a limbless amphibian found throughout Brazil, has a concentration of enlarged mucous glands in its head region and a concentration of enlarged poison glands in its ...

Caecilians are the weird and oft-forgotten cousins of frogs and salamanders. It now seems that they are stranger still, and have a pretty unusual defensive method in which they make poisonous mucus ...

A large team of cancer researchers in The Netherlands has made a surprising new discovery, finding a pair of previously unknown salivary glands. Nestled deep in the back of the nasopharynx, the ...

Mucus is key to keeping our lungs clean and clear of bacteria, viruses, and other foreign particles that can cause infection and inflammation. When we inhale microbes and dust, they are trapped in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Serial sections of the oral lips and angle of rodents representing 10 families, 47 genera and 79 species were studied microscopically, and the ...

Researchers have identified a new stem cell that participates in the repair of the large airways of the lungs, which play a vital role in protecting the body from infectious agents and toxins in the ...

Plethodontid salamander courtship is an elaborate yet conserved set of behaviors that involve many different sensory signals. Exocrine glands in the skin produce pheromones that facilitate courtship.