Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States Alfred E. Mann Department of ...

The integumentary system is the body’s outermost layer. Composed of skin, hair, nails, glands, and nerves, its main job is to protect your insides from elements in your environment, like pollution and ...

Also, there are several hundred minor salivary glands throughout the mouth and throat. Saliva drains into the mouth through small tubes called ducts. Your salivary glands make saliva, which is ...

Lacrimal gland plays a vital role in maintaining the health and function of the ocular surface. Dysfunction of the gland leads to disruption of ocular surface homeostasis and can lead to severe ...

5 The structural basis for this theory stems from the discovery of rich autonomic innervation and ganglionated plexi ... in the cardiovascular system are components of either the sympathetic and ...

2 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Aims To evaluate objectively the meibomian gland area ...

Tears, including basal and reflex secretions, are primarily secreted by the lacrimal gland. The secretory activity of the former has no innervation and is constant day and night. The latter secretion ...