2 Studies say the sweetness of honey triggers your salivary glands to produce more saliva which helps lubricate your airways, thereby easing your cough. Honey also helps reduce inflammation in the ...

The stomach lining produces mucus to create a barrier between the stomach lining and acidic gastric substances. These acids can cause problems such as upset stomach or heartburn. Glands in the nose ...

When you have an allergy, your body releases a chemical called histamine, which triggers the mucous glands in your nose to ramp up production, causing a runny nose. A runny nose can be caused by ...

A devastated mum has shared her heartache after her 27-year-old daughter died unexpectedly. Andrea Brady's world was turned ...

The sublingual glands are rarely affected. Salivary stones generally form when mucous sludge combines with calcium hydroxylapatite and deposits within the salivary ducts. While some stones can be seen ...

Tears are made up of three layers: a mucous, watery, and oily layer, each of which comes together from separate glands. When the gland that produces the oily layer doesn't function properly ...

These spines are very small and closely-packed and end in a fleshy tip covered in mucus glands. They are also strongly ciliated along their shaft. In the living animal (above) the bands show up ...

Researchers in the lab of Michael Sigal at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have elucidated ...

The first gland symptom that prompts a voluntary post ... the narrowed duct lumen creates an obstruction with stagnation and mucus precipitation. Obstructive symptomatology with swelling and ...

Researchers in Michael Sigal’s lab at the Max Delbruck Center and Charite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin have discovered the ...

Salivary glands can be classified as serous, mucous or seromucous (mixed). In serous secretions, the main type of protein secreted is alpha-amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into maltose and ...