S jögren's disease primarily affects the salivary and lacrimal glands, resulting in tissue inflammation characterized by the formation of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS), and a loss of ...

The most restrictive are the San Diego Criteria, which require evidence of an autoimmune process associated with destruction of salivary and lacrimal gland tissues in order to render a diagnosis ...

“People have done a lot of work with stem cells, but this is the first time I’ve seen transplantation of a whole [bioengineered] salivary gland,” said the University of Buffalo’s Olga Baker, an ...